Fair systems build stronger economies

Television is changing, and so is the way it’s delivered into our homes [Issue 1703, 02-08 February]. With broadcast licences due to expire in 2034, the government is reviewing how free-to-air is prov

Figures for the level and rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) are quoted ubiquitously, including in this magazine. They are widely agreed to tell us something of importance. But there is a

At the start of June 2013, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) appeared to be dead in the water. It was almost 18 months since the then European commissioner for justice, Vi

The Bevy is the UK’s only community-owned pub on a council estate, and a powerful example of grassroots action. When their local pub closed in 2010, residents in Moulsecoomb, East Sussex, refused to l

How can the UK secure reliable, sustainable water supplies under growing climate and population pressures? That was the question at the heart of a recent Prospect roundtable put together in collaborat

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti