George Eaton
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The Tories’ tax delusion
Rishi Sunak and Tory rebels are both ignoring the truth: tax cuts now or later aren't a cure for the UK's economic maladies. → Read More
Liz Truss wants to govern a country that does not exist
The Prime Minister’s ideology blinds her to reality: Britain wants stability, not free-market revolution. → Read More
Tory leadership race: candidates are desperately short of new ideas
Free-market dogma is no solution to the UK’s living standards crisis. → Read More
Devi Sridhar: The UK needs plan B to avoid another Covid-19 lockdown
The public health expert and Edinburgh professor on why Britain needs to urgently change course on Covid-19. → Read More
How redistributive was New Labour?
Though inequality did not fall under Blair and Brown, child and pensioner poverty were dramatically reduced. → Read More
How the tax system squeezes graduates
The 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance announced by the government yesterday (7 September) means the UK tax burden has reached its highest rate since 1950 (35.5 per cent of GDP). One particularly squeezed group is university graduates. The UK tax system penalises graduates Marginal tax rates for graduates and non-graduates, including the new National Insurance → Read More
Why cutting Universal Credit is even worse than you think
If the welfare state did not exist, we would need to invent it. The Covid-19 pandemic has been indisputable proof of this. Since the start of the crisis in March 2020, the number of people claiming Universal Credit has doubled from three million to six million. After a decade of austerity, the welfare state has been reaffirmed as a form of collective insurance against life’s → Read More
Radiohead’s eerie Creep remix is the perfect soundtrack for an age of crisis
Perhaps no band has a more tortured relationship with one of their songs than Radiohead with “Creep”. The ode to self-loathing became a worldwide hit in 1993 – a rarity for an alternative band on their debut album – and critics were awed by Thom Yorke’s vocal acrobatics and Jonny Greenwood’s guitar slashes. But like a country overreliant on one export, Radiohed came to resent → Read More
Yanis Varoufakis video interview: “I hope the UK rejoins the EU – but Europe must change”
Five years ago today, the UK voted to leave the European Union. To mark the anniversary, I spoke to Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and the author of books including Adults In The Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment, about how Brexit has transformed British politics, the struggles of Labour and the European centre left and whether an → Read More
Is the neoliberal era finally over?
In 2007 Alan Greenspan, the former chair of the US Federal Reserve, was asked which candidate he was supporting in the forthcoming presidential election. “We are fortunate that, thanks to globalisation, policy decisions in the US have been largely replaced by global market forces,” he replied of the contest between Barack Obama and John McCain. “National security aside, it → Read More
How Tory dominance is built on home ownership
The Conservatives have created an economy for homeowners but in London and elsewhere they are finding it hard to sell capitalism to those with no capital. → Read More
“The meteor has already struck”: Mathew Lawrence on how ecosocialism can save Earth
The Planet on Fire author on where Keir Starmer is failing, Joe Biden’s radicalism and the lessons of Covid-19. → Read More
London’s poorest risk becoming the new “left behind”
The depiction of the capital as a gilded metropolis conceals the highest rate of child poverty of any English region. → Read More
How student loan repayments leave graduates squeezed
Graduates earning more than £26,575 pay a marginal tax rate of 41 per cent, compared to 32 per cent for non-graduates. → Read More
Why Rishi Sunak can’t escape blame for the Covid-19 crisis
The Chancellor recklessly encouraged workers back to offices, diners to eat out and told the public to “live without fear”. → Read More
Devi Sridhar: The UK needs a zero-Covid strategy to prevent endless lockdowns
To avoid restrictions next winter, the UK must seek to eliminate the virus, not merely suppress it, argues the Edinburgh professor of global public health. → Read More
The year that shook the economy
Why was the UK hit harder than any other G7 economy? And what does the pandemic mean for its future model? → Read More
Devi Sridhar: The Dominic Cummings affair did lasting damage to public health
The Edinburgh professor on what the UK needs to learn from other countries to avoid an endless cycle of lockdowns. → Read More
Devi Sridhar: “The longer the UK delays lockdown, the longer it will last”
The Edinburgh professor on how Britain has failed against Covid-19 and why the best way to save the economy is to protect public health. → Read More
Sweden’s Anders Tegnell: We did not pursue “herd immunity” against Covid-19
The Swedish state epidemiologist defends his country’s handling of the virus and gives his verdict on the UK’s coronavirus response. → Read More