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In George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984 the Ministry of Truth is the government ‘s propaganda ministry, responsible for disseminating information to the [...]

Ever since the financial crisis, people and corporations who try to minimise their tax have been in the public eye, and the scrutiny only intensified with the [...]

Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has a plan: she wants to follow up on the December rate hike with three more quarter-point increases in 2017. The reasons, she [...]

The planet is warming. The average global temperature has risen by 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1880. The 10 warmest years since then have all occurred since the [...]

Sometimes it takes a brief and concise summary of a complicated matter to get people’s attention and potentially change perceptions which have come to be [...]

The Federal reserve met market expectations yesterday and raised the target for the benchmark Fed Funds rate by 0.25% to 0.5-0.75%, and market consensus is for [...]

“In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.” So predicted the London Times newspaper in 1894. An army of more than [...]

The Brexit and Trump votes have changed politics as we knew it on both sides of the Atlantic, with populist movements setting an agenda which is in opposition [...]

This week saw a relatively benign announcement from Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, who is intending to hand over responsibility for track maintenance to [...]

The left on both sides of the Atlantic has much to lament: Brexit, Trump and the last week the victory of Francois Fillon in the French Republican primary, [...]