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Budget 2021: the chickens come home to roost
Opinion Rishi Sunak delivered his budget today amid a fragile and uncertain time. Max King analyses.
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A Canadian fund for the cautious income investor
Tips This investment trust offers a reassuringly boring way to navigate any imminent stockmarket volatility
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Why the government's plan for funding social care is a lousy one
Editor's letter Insisting that people use their property wealth to pay for social care is perfectly reasonable, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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State pensioners probably aren’t going to get an 8% pay rise next year
News The “triple-lock” could in theory mean an 8% rise in state pensions this year. But that’s not going to happen. Saloni Sardana explains what the triple lock is, and why the chancellor wants to scrap it.
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Betting on politics: who will win Norway's general election?
Tips Norway is due to go to the polls in a general election in a few months’ time. Matthew Partridge casts his eyes over the candidates and picks a favourite.
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The government says it wants to build more houses – but will it?
Briefings As PM, Boris Johnson is pushing through reforms that should make it easier to build more houses. As a local MP, he opposes such plans. Which of these tendencies will win out?
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Are we living in a new era of political sleaze?
Opinion Cosy relations between politicians and corporations are back in the news. Just how bad is the problem? Stuart Watkins reports.
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27 February 1900: The launch of the Labour Party
Features Responding to the need for a single political party to represent the trade unions, the Labour Party was formed on this day in 1900.
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Inflation is the easiest way out of this – just don’t expect politicians to admit it
Opinion The UK government borrowed £34.1bn in December, a record amount for that month. Britain's debt pile now amounts to 100% of GDP. How are we going to pay it all back? Realistically speaking, says John Stepek, there is only one way: inflation.
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