Why don’t we just…
focus on turning the tap off poverty?

Glories of the mine?

James Meadway on why we can afford to pay nurses more

We could be walking into the shadow of a new banking crisis, warns James Meadway

Lula's prospects

Local news is black and white and read – but not all over, says Roger Ratcliffe

If economic optimism has been written off, so should household energy debts, says James Meadway

With photos of Awaab Ishak in the papers, it’s housing associations in the frame, says Saskia Murphy

The IMF went in search of a wage-price spiral and instead threw us a curveball, says James Meadway

There’s a gulf between Roger Ratcliffe and the World Cup

As the austerity establishment sends us into another doom loop, James Meadway says we don’t have to buckle in for the ride

Protests in Iran shape relations with the west

Saskia Murphy isn’t kitted out for this week’s World Cup fever