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There’s something tragically appropriate about the fact that the most high-profile British industrial story, as the country staggers in...

The Irish “backstop”, the legal clause that offends the sensibilities of hardline Tory Brexiteers – to the point where they would be...

The Irish "backstop", the legal clause that offends the sensibilities of hardline Tory Brexiteers - to the point where they would be...

In 1909 the British empire was locked in a frantic race with Germany for naval military supremacy. The continent was carved into...

One could tell a surprisingly comprehensive history of the Brexit project by simply talking about food. From curved bananas to...

At the peak of the global financial crisis a decade ago there were some who insisted that politicians and regulators should sit back and...

If visions from ministers were effective in boosting UK exports we would long ago have surpassed the £1 trillion target set by George...

A sword of Damocles hangs over the economy of the North-east of England. That at least is the implication of the government’s own...

The bonanza, in the end, failed to materialise. There had been a fair amount of talk before the Spring Statement that Philip Hammond...

When it comes to trade, liberal Brexiteers are cut from a very different cloth from Donald Trump. Or so we’re led to believe. Trump wants...

One would need to have been living under a rock not to know what the headline findings are from the Government’s internal economic...

Comparisons between politicians and business leaders are generally to be avoided. But sometimes they can be instructive. Imagine if a...

Not long ago there was an official Government target for UK exports. “We want to double our nation’s exports to £1 trillion this decade,”...

The economic headlines of the past 48 hours have been thoroughly miserable, if not apocalyptic. So what’s going on? Has the UK’s economic...

As you would expect, Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate economist and possibly America’s most influential liberal commentator, gets...

In his 1960 book The Strategy of Conflict the late Thomas Schelling made a significant contribution to the field of game theory by...

What is your reaction to the re-ignition of the row, courtesy of an “essay” by Boris Johnson, over whether or not Britain will be able to...

Who will be the next winner of the Nobel Prize in economics? One answer is that it might be a modest and quietly spoken professor who...

If Labour supporters want a glimpse of what Jeremy Corbyn’s 2017 general election manifesto would look like in practice, they don’t have...

On the floor of Gertjan Vlieghe’s wood-panelled Bank of England office sits a small doorstop in the shape of a hedgehog – an animal not...