Ten days after right-wing destabilisation attempts, Mexico’s leadership has emerged strengthened, securing historic labour and wage agreements, while opposition-backed protests have crumbled under scrutiny, says DAVID RABY
Labour's austerity is an economic blind alley
In his first of a new monthly economics column MICHAEL BURKE argues that public-sector investment is more effective, more productive than private-sector investment
Rachel Reeves and her Treasury team prepare to leave 11 Downing Street, London, before delivering the Budget in the Houses of Parliament, December 16 2024
Fuelled by economic abandonment and a collapsing faith in politics, Farage’s party is transforming grievance into momentum north of the border, warns COLL McCAIL
A searing scrutiny hearing has uncovered thousands of undelivered appointments, vanishing data and a system in chaos – galvanising councillors, patients and activists to demand urgent reform and an NHS dentist for all, writes SIMON BRIGNELL
A vast US war fleet deployed in the south Caribbean — ostensibly to fight drug-trafficking but widely seen as a push for violent regime change — has sparked international condemnation and bipartisan resistance in the US itself. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
THE British economy continues to stagnate, with a series of negative consequences for prosperity including pay, poverty and public services.
This stagnation is long-term and so too is the decline in living standards. Cleary, a radical reorientation in economic policy is needed to reverse these trends.
There should be no room for complacency in Downing Street or elsewhere that the economy avoided the technical definition of recession — which is two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.
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