Five post-Trump obstacles to a global green recovery
Joe Biden’s win gives the globe a better chance of averting climate catastrophe, but major obstacles remain
Some have prospered during Covid – it’s time they paid their fair share
From big tech windfalls to taxing wealth in the same way we tax income, reforms are way overdue, says Tom Kibasi, a researcher on politics and economics
Boris Johnson has to stop playing games and agree a deal with Europe
Britain must accept whatever it is offered. The EU is stronger, it has Biden on its side – and it’s right, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Revealed: Covid recovery plans threaten global climate hopes
Exclusive: analysis finds countries pouring money into fossil fuels to fight recession
The baby boomers still want to make America great again
Trump may not have carried all before him, but in times of fear and inequality, his ideas still resonate – and not just in the US
Rishi Sunak’s furlough U-turn was right – but it was forced by his own grave errors
The chancellor’s delays to lockdown cost lives and harmed the economy, says New Economics Foundation chief executive Miatta Fahnbulleh
UK recession fears and rivalries take the shine off Rishi Sunak
The chancellor’s star rose quickly, but now ‘the richest man in the Commons’ is attracting new kinds of attention
How a full-scale lockdown rebellion by Tory MPs was called off
Conservative whips ‘bullied new intake like mad’ to get Covid restrictions through parliament
UK coronavirus: Sweden and Germany put on quarantine list; Johnson raises Christmas hopes – as it happened
Latest updates: people travelling from Germany and Sweden must self-isolate; Johnson thinks people will have ‘as normal a Christmas as possible’
Bank of England launches new £150bn stimulus package
Move to prop up stricken economy comes amid second Covid wave and fresh restrictions
Sunak now prefers risk of doing too much to risk of doing too little
Chancellor’s unspoken message is that tough curbs will remain even after 2 December
Rishi Sunak extends Covid job furlough scheme until March 2021
Latest U-turn follows growing pressure for more support to protect jobs and the economy as second wave hits
Johnson refuses to rule out Covid lockdown extension for England
Prime minister tells MPs he ‘hopes’ to have the economy open before Christmas
CBI boss says England lockdown means ‘bleak midwinter’ for UK firms
Carolyn Fairbairn said second lockdown will be worse than the first for many firms
How bad will the second lockdown in England be for UK plc?
Economists predict another big hit but the GDP drop will not be so severe, not least because it has less far to fall