Aditya Chakrabortty
Aditya Chakrabortty is senior economics commentator for the Guardian. He tweets @chakrabortty
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'Independent' pharmacist's letter edited by Boots senior execsLetter takes issue with Guardian investigation but was changed by vice-president at Walgreens Boots Alliance
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I’ve found the key to Britain’s recovery: an orange shed in ShanktownA return visit to the Building Bloqs initiative – in a suburb best known for stabbings and mini-riots – shows what social enterprises can do with proper support
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Forget the gossip about IDS and Osborne. Disability cuts are devastating familiesSick people like Paul Chapman face a benefits system that is either broken or inhumane
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Our columnists’ verdict on the 2016 budgetHas George Osborne’s sugary bunny sweetened the pill of further cuts, and is this his big pitch for the leadership?
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Is the Blairs’ £27m property empire relevant to public anger about the housing crisis?Larry Elliott and Aditya Chakrabortty debate whether the ex-PM is responsible for or just the beneficiary of a British housing policy that’s gone badly wrong
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This NHS crisis is not economic. It's politicalAs the health service endures the biggest squeeze in its history, talk of it being unviable is wide of the mark. We cannot afford to do without it.
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Are we heading for a crash?Economists can’t agree if gyrating financial markets mean we face a global meltdown. We asked leading analysts to debate the question …
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We’ve been conned by the rich predators of DavosThey write their own tax laws; they buy their own politicians. No wonder the wealth of the very richest people on the planet is ballooning
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Is Britain a nation of debt bingers? History tells a different storyHousehold debt attracts easy moralising, but as a new book shows, credit used to be a badge of status
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Rob the poor and give to the rich – housing policy for 2016The bill before parliament is ideology at its purest: a full-throttle attack on social tenants everywhere
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My hero in 2015? The man with the plan to beat the cutsFew will have heard of local union leader John Burgess, but he is now confronting the nightmare we will all face
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British parties are suffering a slow death. What’s left are elites and cultsOur party democracy has given way to an unholy cadre that has no interest in serving the public
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George Osborne's spending review – our writers' verdictA bare-faced pitch at the centre ground, an exercise in ‘Lesser Awfulism’ – the panel reacts to Osborne’s big speech
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Welcome to Austeria – a nation robbing its poor to pay for the next big crashIt’s clear George Osborne intends to make austerity permanent. Those at the top will benefit, but hard times beckon for everyone else
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For years Britain shunned Narendra Modi. So why roll out the red carpet now?India’s prime minister is a Hindu extremist who fails to condemn lynch mobs. Yet it seems that trade deals matter more to our government
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George Osborne has reached the point where his cuts can no longer be denied or defendedThe chancellor’s maths are finally outrunning his politics. If he doesn’t U-turn he’ll have to keep hitting striving families again and again
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I used to shun migrant traditions. Now I find them impossibly movingWhen I was younger and harder I could take or leave Durga puja and other ceremonies of Bengali diaspora but now I see them differently
You’re witnessing the death of neoliberalism – from within