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Economic forecasters are in the dock. Last week, none other than the chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy

Last year was a year of celebrity deaths. But perhaps the most significant of all received very little coverage. Just

It’s certainly been an eventful year. But rather than dwell on the past, what sort of things can we expect

The buzz-phrase of the moment in political discussion is “post-truth”. Shell-shocked metropolitan liberals are astonished by both Brexit and Donald

So farewell then, Matteo Renzi! The resignation of the Italian Prime Minister after his heavy defeat in Sunday’s referendum on

Economic forecasts have become a political hot potato. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) predictions, presented as part of the

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, was on good form last week when he appeared at the Treasury Committee

So the pollsters got it wrong again. After the general election last year and then Brexit, it is perhaps not

A current headache for the government is the performance of the NHS, and whether it is running out of money.

The scenes as the migrant camp was cleared in Calais once again provoked bitter divisions in British society. Metropolitan luvvies

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to generate concerns. The latest furore emerged at the start of this week.

Tempers are fraying at the highest levels of economic policy-making in the UK. Theresa May, at the Conservative Party conference,

It had been an article of faith among economists and policy-makers that free trade is a Good Thing. Trade liberalisation was

The economic data on post-Brexit Britain is beginning to emerge. We discovered last month that employment in May to July

It’s an exciting time of the year for many young people, with some setting off to university for the first

Natalie Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes: don’t you just love her? One of the Black Lives Matter campaigners, our Nat caused chaos by occupying

Who will win the US presidency? Opinion polls have got a bad name in Britain, at least. During the 2010

Sports fans will all be familiar with the commentator who almost always gets things wrong. “Arsenal are very much on

Following the Brexit vote, normal service seems to have resumed. A key question in economic policy since the General Election of

The A-Level results released last week confirm the dominance of schools in London and the South East. Provisional league tables