Author Archives: Lashes and Tan

Why bond vigilantes smell blood after Reeves’s big-spending Budget

Markets’ reaction to the Chancellor’s plans draw unwelcome comparisons with the mini-Budget

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Author: Szu Ping Chan

Devious Rachel Reeves omitted public sector pensions when fiddling with debt rules

The Chancellor’s economic rewrite is positively and actively misleading

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Author: Neil Record

Yes, the Budget was disappointing – but not for the reasons you think

Potholes and primary school repairs have their place, says Chris Blackhurst. But where were the grand projects, the big ideas to shake off our national malaise?

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Author: Chris Blackhurst

Reeves Faces Market Wobbles and UK Ministers Still Wanting More

Amid the selloff in UK bonds this week triggered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ budget plan to ramp up taxes, borrowing and spending, there were jitters in Labour’s cabinet — but for a different reason.

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Author: Ellen Milligan,Alex Wickham,Ailbhe Rea

National Insurance rise ‘will see some care homes go under’

Extra costs may bankrupt them, says industry group which also complains Labour has broken promise to prioritise sector

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Author: Ben Riley-Smith

Elite Democrats threaten to be cast into oblivion by America’s new upstarts

Long-term demographic and economic trends are moving power away from blue to red states. Kamala Harris’ party can’t fight history

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Author: Joel Kotkin

Lawrence: The one person who did not deny Donald Trump wants Liz Cheney executed is Donald Trump

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has a message to young people watching their first presidential election: no presidential candidate in history has ever engaged in more personally insulting language or violent rhetoric than Donald Trump.

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Author: MSNBC.com