Ruth Sunderland

The long, hot summer this year has brought a wave of nostalgia for 1976, when the nation tried to forget its economic woes and sang along to Elton John and Kiki Dee's hit Don't Go Breaking My Heart.

Question: What do a £50m boost to the wealth of Lord Rothschild this week and the US midterm elections in November have in common?

So long as we consign a million people aged 16-24 to an economic wilderness where they are unable to start their working lives, we have little chance of prosperity or growth.

James Ashton, champion of the UK's small stock market companies, has a message for Andy Burnham and his Chancellor John Healey: we need to start investing in ourselves.

James Ashton, champion of the UK's small stock market companies, has a message for Andy Burnham and his Chancellor John Healey: we need to start investing in ourselves.

One of Labour's favourite think-tanks, the IPPR, has put out a paper arguing the tax system is 'slanted towards the interests of older Britons'.

The idea that young workers are taxed far too much while rich pensioners sit back and gloat is an entrenched grievance for a certain type of Left-leaning economist.

Peter Duffy says that he has saved consumers in Britain nearly £3billion in a year on household bills, which is not a sum to be sniffed at in a cost-of-living crisis. Or, to be precise, his company has.

What passes for Left-wing thought on pensions is polluted by the assumption moneybags oldies are luxuriating in under-taxed wealth at the expense of the young.

What passes for Left-wing thought on pensions is polluted by the assumption moneybags oldies are luxuriating in under-taxed wealth at the expense of the young.