To The Guardian The Right hates regulation and red tape, but this ideological hostility only seems to extend to relieving big business and the private sector. By contrast, the last three decades have seen the public sector crushed under regulatory burdens and tied up in red tape, often in a bizarre attempt at making schools, …
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Are robots about to make us all redundant? That’s today’s big scare story, says Sonia Sodha. But it’s a “dangerous distraction”. The real threat to the labour market is that many workplaces, far from becoming too “futuristic”, are reverting to “quasi-Victorian labour exploitation”. The recent revival of our garment industry, for example – tight turnaround …
The shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corp. have asked the energy giant to publicly disclose how the fight against climate change could affect the company’s bottom line. The initiative was supported by more than 62 percent of shareholders who voted — a big leap from last year, when there was 38 percent support for a similar …
The signs are that life for British citizens is about to get a lot tougher. After two-and-a-half years of modest economic recovery, rising inflation (due to hit 3% later this year) and stagnant wage growth will start eroding the real value of people’s pay packets. That, in turn, will have a damaging effect on growth …
I spend a lot of time being critical of the United States, and it seems only right to point out that when is comes to lousy policies, pathetic leadership (and alleged corruption into the bargain) there is, at the present time, little to choose between the US and the UK – the issues are strikingly …
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