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Destitution is the new British disease
The welfare state is failing
The best of times and the worst of times — in debtors' prison
The Marshalsea was the best and worst place for a debtor to be imprisoned. From 1438 until its closure in…
What could Muslim women do within 48 miles of home? Almost everything
Secrets of the stars The astrologer Jonathan Cainer died after beginning his last horoscope for his own star sign: ‘We’re…
All the signs point to a new recession – a worse one
All the signs have been pointing to a new recession – and we’re much less equipped to weather it than last time
Lessons in prudence at my old primary school
Reality Check
A censored hymn to motorway misery
Service record The government is to form a design panel to improve motorway services stations. These have not always charmed…
Portrait of the week
Home MPs voted by 382 to 128 to make Britain the only country to allow genetic modification of embryos to…
Don't believe the gloom-mongers: deflation will be good for Britain
Campaigning in Putney in 1978, Mrs Thatcher famously took out a pair of scissors and cut a pound note down…
Yes, Wonga lent at shocking rates – but it was customers who lied
‘Payday Lady is not trading at this time,’ says her website, sounding a little like La Dame aux camélias. Indeed (since…
The revolution the West needs (and won't get)
The West must wake up and reform, or face decline
The big idea that can win the Tories the next election
In one sense David Cameron is lucky that the Conservatives do not enter 2014 with a lead in the polls.…
Spending Review: Has George Osborne's caution condemned Britain to a lost decade?
The Labour party used to joke that the Tories would act as their cleaners: win, take the political pain, abolish…
Who needs money?
I was racking my brains, trying to understand money, trying to grasp exactly what it is, when I came across…
I no longer understand what ‘Ireland’ means
The defining commentary of this on-going financial crisis, for me, came from Gerald Hill of the Midlands, in a letter to the Times in March 2009.
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