Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
13EconPol
The Energy Reset That Has Not Yet Decided Who Pays
The phrase to watch from John Healey's budget is "a new cost control framework to drive down all aspects of energy bills." It is a name that sounds like a mechanism and behaves like an intention. A framework, in the...
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14EconPol
A Budget Of Small Transfers And A Fifteen Billion Pound Buffer
On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, John Healey delivered his first Budget as Chancellor in Andy Burnham's government. He did it in the House of Commons with a statement designed to offer what he called "breathing space"...
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15EconPol
Four Claims, Two Crises, and One Correction
A video clip stitched reports from four countries into a single warning. We checked each claim: two held, one moved, one pointed the wrong way. This is the page that keeps checking. The page itself is at...
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16EconPol
The Tanker at the Dock and the Price at the Pump
The tanker came in at Corpus Christi on a Tuesday in late October, one million barrels of Venezuelan oil in its holds and a president on the quay to take credit for the arrival. Donald Trump used the ship as the...
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17EconPol
The Firing Stopped at 04:00, the Road Out Is Still Mined
At 04:00 Moscow time the guns pointed at Kherson city stopped, according to the BBC report of 27 October 2026. 1] That is 03:00 in Ukraine and 01:00 GMT, and it is the moment a limited truce took effect in Oleshky, the...
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18EconPol
A Forty-Pound Food Shop, a Seven-Hundred-Pound Car and the Room Where the Lines Are Drawn
A weekly food shop capped at £40. An energy bill of about £200 a month. A council tax bill of £200 that will not move. A car that costs £750 a month in finance, insurance, fuel and tax. A personal allowance of £12,570...
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19EconPol
Lula's Fourth Term: The Deals Behind a Three-Week Turnaround
The first round vote went against him, and the count was public. Three weeks later, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was declared the winner of Brazil's presidential election his fourth term, at the age of 80. The candidate he...
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20EconPol
A Concession That Redraws a Country
If it holds, the most radical thing about it will be the paperwork. A construction file reopened, an inspection report read out loud, a budget line moved by one vote. If it does not hold, the failure will not look...
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21EconPol
Five Minutes and a Nineteen-Hundred-Pound Demand
The number on the sign at the Copeland Street car park in Derby is five. Five minutes is not the length of a stay, and it is not the price of anything. It is the interval a driver is given between entering the car park...
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22EconPol
The Thirty-Second Spot That Ran
"Kamala is for they/them," the narrator says in the advertisement. "President Trump is for you." The spot ran during the 2024 presidential campaign, and it is credited with helping to fuel Trump's return to the White...
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23EconPol
A Spreadsheet That Sat in a Drawer
The figures existed long before anyone read them aloud. They sat in the returns of 1,347 individual projects, each carrying a start date, a budget line and an expected completion. When the data was finally released...
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24EconPol
The Cap Nobody Announced: England's First-Home Loans and the £110,000 Question
The silence came at the podium. Prime Minister Andy Burnham used the Labour conference on 26 September to launch the Your First Home scheme, told the hall it would be aimed at those who "really need support" and named...
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