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Economics and economic policy need a rethink. This is clear from the scale of inequality, joblessness, insecurity and environmental disasters we see in the world.

Social Democrat leader says spending should be no less than party’s election manifesto pledge of 3.5% of GDP

Robert Jenrick also said the West should reduce its dependency on China and prepare for China to invade Taiwan ‘within three years’.

The giant Secunda complex of Sasol, South Africa’s biggest chemicals and energy company, provides the fundamental ingredients to South Africa’s petrochemical sector. It produces petrochemicals, plastics, chemicals essential to key industries such as agriculture (fertilisers) and mining (explosives), and 30% of the country’s liquid fuels. These value chains are very…

U.N. agencies have long warned that it could take decades to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s offensive against Hamas

Report says ‘intense military operations in Gaza have left unprecedented humanitarian, environmental and social catastrophe’

More than half of the world’s total GDP is at least moderately dependent on nature. Yet arguably, there is no economy (or life) without nature. A quarter of animal and planet species are now threatened, and 14 out of 18 key ecosystem services – including fertile soils to grow food,…

The ONS said public sector net borrowing in the first half of the financial year stood at £79.6 billion, £6.7 billion higher than forecast by the OBR.

US markets continue to flirt with record highs.