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...out of big banks that nearly crashed during the Global Financial Crisis, and the shrinkage of the tax-base in the downturn that followed, UK public debt has reached 85.8% of GDP. That’s perilously close to the 90% of GDP, above which public debt can become a serious constraint on the economy’s future growth, according to influential economists Carmen Reinhart and...

...out. [Commonwealth Day Flags] Flags of Commonwealth member states hang in Parliament Square on Commonwealth Day (2012) The road to Brexit Fast forward more than three decades and European immigration increased – particularly in the years after the EU expanded towards the east to include former Communist states in 2004 and 2007. At the time, there was a surge of...

...out of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in our prisons. Prisons create crime; they do not reduce it. Paradoxically, if we want to reduce crime we must first reduce prison populations – but the new bill does not recognise this. Prisoner reform and rehabilitation has been the goal of penal administrators since the 1800s. But the golden fleece has never been found. The...

...out easily). Nor does the puzzle lie in Tom's somewhat grumpy demeanour, leaving you to wonder what kind of customers Sky imagines it is appealing to. The puzzle is the sugar. Rhetorically, the advert is arguing that your data is precious and that you should be able to keep it. It uses sugar to symbolize this, because sugar is also precious. Sugar is a clear signal of how...