If you want to look at the reason some aspects of the American economy may be going into meltdown then an article in the Bulwark may give you some idea. The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy” by Jonathan Cohn (The Bulwark, 14 September 2025).
The line between pulling off a diplomatic masterstroke and setting up an accident waiting to happen can be a fine one. In the seven-month fable of Peter Mandelson’s UK ambassadorship to the US, the crossing of that line has created a political polycrisis for which it is hard to think of a parallel.
Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Poland. On Tuesday, not only did we receive reports of yet another Russian attack on Ukraine, but also of an egregious violation of Polish and NATO airspace by Russian drones.
The amount of vacant and derelict land in Scotland has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016 according to the latest annual survey. Of 335 sites brought back into use in 2024, 192 – more than half - were reclaimed for housing.
From The Financial Conduct Authority. If you've used motor finance to buy a car, motorbike or van, it's very likely that the lender paid the broker (the person that arranges your loan, usually your car dealer) commission for arranging the loan.
The UK now has the highest borrowing costs of any rich OECD country, despite its middle-of-the-pack debt position, due to ‘sticky’ inflation and a borrowing-cost premium driven by our vulnerability to changes in the whims of international investors, according to new Resolution Foundation research published on Friday 12 September 2025. The Foundation’s latest Macroeconomic Policy Outlook notes recent moves in gilt yields have put UK borrowing costs back in the spotlight.
After the resignation of Angela Rayner, the UK government faces an urgent question: what will happen to its flagship employment rights bill?. The former deputy prime minister was an important champion of the bill – and businesses have seized an opportunity to call for it to be diluted.
Companies will continue working together to support progress in the UK and Japan. The organisations tasked with the two most challenging nuclear clean-up jobs in the world have agreed to extend a co-operation agreement.
Donald Trump promised to Make America Great Again. Instead, he is wrecking the US economy.
Before resigning from his nine-month stint as French prime minister, François Bayrou had claimed that if France failed to cut its public deficit, young people would pay the price “for the sake of the comfort of boomers”. This blunt assessment cut to the heart of France’s current economic reality.
In 2025, the United Kingdom finds itself navigating a complex economic landscape shaped in large part by its substantial national debt. With a debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding 100%, the country faces mounting fiscal pressures that influence nearly every facet of its economic performance.
Keir Starmer has built his leadership of the Labour Party on the promise of integrity, competence, and a clean break from both the chaos of Boris Johnson’s Conservatives and the unelectability of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. Yet the collapse of Peter Mandelson’s credibility under the weight of old scandals and fresh revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein now threatens to unravel that carefully constructed image.
This paper is part of our Unsung Britain project, which explores the everyday economic reality for low- to middle-income families. It shifts the focus beyond income, looking instead at the savings, debts, and arrears that shape households’ ability to weather financial shocks.
New funding for energy infrastructure to boost Ukraine’s resilience and war effort as Foreign Secretary visits Kyiv to make clear that support for Ukraine is crucial to the security of the UK. UK aid funding boost to support Ukraine’s emergency energy needs and help vulnerable communities targeted by Putin’s aggression.
Some of Britain’s biggest shops - from supermarkets to department stores - face a fresh wave of closures if the Government forces large shops into its proposed higher business rates tax band. There are approximately 4,000 large-format retail stores with a rateable value of over £500,000.
Government spending in the UK defence industry grew by 6% in real terms to £31.7 billion, according to latest figures for 2024/25 published 11 September 2025. Working people will feel safer and see the economic benefits of the record investment in defence the Government has delivered, new figures (MOD regional expenditure with industry 2024/25 - GOV.UK) reveal.
The COVID-19 pandemic presented governments worldwide with the unprecedented challenge of protecting both public health and national economies. In the United Kingdom, one of the flagship interventions to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), launched in May 2020.
The confusion and commotion over cryptocurrency often reminds me of the 19th-century German drama Faust. In Goethe’s masterpiece, the devil Mephistopheles offers an emperor the tantalising vision of limitless wealth through the printing of paper money.
The debate over former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner’s tax arrangements demonstrated that there are few topics more complex than the law of trusts. It was politically awkward, to say the least, when a deputy PM and housing secretary had to admit getting it wrong, and underpaying £40,000 in stamp duty.
Total construction output is estimated to have grown by 0.6% in the three months to July 2025. Over the three-month period, new work increased by 1.0%, and repair and maintenance grew by 0.1%.
