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The future of social care after Coronavirus
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10,000 care home residents have died from Covid-19, more than a third of all Covid-19 deaths. On Wednesday it was report... Read more
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Personal debt is at record levels with one in six of us at risk of a debt crisis. Credit cards, overdrafts and payday lo... Read more
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Can we bring down house prices without crashing the economy?
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It’s one of the biggest contradictions in British politics. Across the country, baby boomers who own a house cheer as th... Read more
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There are troubling signs that the new data-driven economy is inheriting all the same problems as the old one: power imb... Read more
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