Beware scaling back UK furlough scheme too soon, warns Resolution Foundation

Thinktank warns of ‘dangerous complacency’ with strength of jobs market and pay growth both weaker than thought

The UK economy is barely out of first gear, so now is no time to hit the brakes

Hurrahs for inflation reaching 2% as the economy grew gave way to panic over rising prices – and it’s all, of course, made much worse by Brexit

The Guardian view on privatising Channel 4: it makes no economic sense

Editorial: The arguments put forward for selling the broadcaster don’t add up. The impetus is ideological – and wrong-headed

The great British broadcasting shake-up – all you need to know

Government TV changes include possible sale of Channel 4 and new rules governing streaming

Social care plans to be announced by the end of 2021, Tories insist

Plan under discussion is believed to be some version of proposal to cap total care costs

Catherine Mann to join Bank of England monetary policy committee

Former Citigroup and OECD chief economist has warned of economic harms from austerity and Brexit

Channel 4 privatisation – how would it work and who would buy it?

Selling off the publicly owned UK broadcaster could depend on changing its business model

Social care to royal yacht: battle looms over UK spending priorities

The economic damage from Covid will make Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak’s decisions even harder

Ending furlough too soon will wreck post-Covid chances for many firms

Rishi Sunak should think again as scheme will be badly missed by businesses in hardest-hit sectors

Rothesay’s decline as a seaside resort is not unique, but its beauty most certainly is

Perhaps the visitors who crush into Skye might turn left at Glasgow next time, towards this lost resort, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

Hospitality firms urgently need clarity from Sunak about £2.5bn of unpaid rent

Giving landlords and tenants six months to work out a deal on arrears could stop an wave of bankruptcies in the sector

If the British understood taxes better, perhaps we would vote for them to be fairer

A new website aims to explain the complex UK tax system, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The UK economy could be transformed by a central bank digital currency

The Bank of England’s consultation on public digital cash could represent the biggest shift in the monetary system for 200 years, says Josh Ryan-Collins of University College London

Inflation warnings presume the Covid crisis is over … sadly it isn’t

Pent-up demand is temporary and the prospect of a third wave, with all its economic havoc, is very real

G7: Boris Johnson appears to repudiate Tory austerity at summit opening

PM tells world leaders it is vital not to repeat the mistakes of the 2008 crash and entrench inequality