Money
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Theresa May and Philip Hammond: budget latestChris Riddell on the prime minister and chancellor’s national insurance woes
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How free market helped big six energy firms to rack up huge profitsPrivatisation was meant to cut costs by allowing us to switch suppliers. Instead, most have stuck with the same rip-off firms. This week, MPs will try to find a way to fix the broken energy market
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Most of us don’t change energy suppliers. We need to cap variable tariffsCompetition can work for the 15% who engage in the market. But after years of privatisation, the majority of consumers haven’t – and probably won’t
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Philip Hammond gave us a budget for tax avoiders and giant firmsThere is nothing progressive about cutting taxes for companies and the very wealthiest while hitting the self-employed
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The Guardian view on the Ofcom deal: too little, too slowlyEditorial: Digital technology now underpins all aspects of our lives. It needs to be available to everyone, as of right
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Ticket touts face unlimited fines for using 'bots' to buy in bulkPackage of measures designed to curb growing power of ‘secondary ticketing’ industry and protect fans
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It’s not true that the top 1% pay 27% of taxLetters: Equating tax with income tax alone is dangerous as well as wrong
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Does BT's Openreach deal mean faster broadband or higher prices?Consumers will hope their service improves when the telecoms group moves its division into a new company
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This was an out-of-touch budget of broken promisesLetters: No one I know who is self-employed works as little as 40 hours a week; most work evenings and weekends, and earn the equivalent of minimum wage or below
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Philip Hammond has done little for tenantsLetters: Rents are predicted to rise by more than 20% over the next five years and the access to rented properties for homeless people will fall
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Tories face tax revolt and Northern Ireland's deadlock – Politics Weekly podcastHeather Stewart is joined by Larry Elliott, Jonathan Freedland, Rowena Mason and Torsten Bell to discuss Philip Hammond’s first budget. We hear from Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds and Tory Ed Vaizey. Plus: Henry McDonald in Belfast on the deadlock in Northern Ireland power-sharing talks
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How the Conservatives pledged no rise in national insurance, then raised itHowever you spin it, from David Cameron’s tweets to four unambiguous promises in the election manifesto, this was a pledge broken
Consumer champions Bang went Christmas as Domestic & General left us without a cooker