The good, the bad and the wealthy
Stewart Lansley argues that too much of the UK’s abundant wealth is the wrong kind. As the dust settles on Labour’s budget, it is worth recalling that Keir Starmer went …
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Episodes in a cereal
Jack Thompson tells the hidden history of pollution, profiteering and protest behind Britain’s favourite breakfast cereal. Weetabix, the compressed wheat biscuit usually served drowned in milk, is a cereal that …
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Time to go clubbing
The Mint editor, Henry Leveson-Gower, describes how joining the club could raise the tempo of environmental regeneration. Earlier this year, a group of farmers who had formed under the banner …
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Commons threaded
Can commoning be woven into the fabric of the era of post-responsibility corporations? Maisie McCarthy sees a pluralistic light ahead. It’s no surprise that with Trump in, ESG is out. …
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The missing middle
Wolfram Elsner looks at the economics in the space between individuals and nations. For decades, economics has been dominated by two lenses: the micro, which focuses on individual agents, and …
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More than a buzzword?
Anders Hayden charts the rise of a concept of an economy focused on human needs and sustainability, and warns of its vulnerability to being co-opted by the mainstream as a …
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A whiff of betrayal
Jia-Ren Tan charts how the Malaysian state has plundered the fruits of the labours of the country’s family farms. In April 2025, state enforcement officers arrived in Raub—a highland town …
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Something is going to go down
Erald Kolasi warns of an inevitable US decline as China commands the trading top spot and the tie between the toppling of trade leaders and conflict. Trump’s recent trade war …
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The price of compliance
Ecuador leapt into the global economy seeking economic development but found only dependency. María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña writes. At Guayaquil airport, Ecuadorians disembark from deportation flights, some wearing ankle monitors …
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Alternative route
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko tells how alternatives to neoliberal consumption are being built in the Global South even as Trumps’ America charges around. As Trump-era tariffs spiral into renewed trade chaos, …
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