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Community enterprises, with their roots in co-operatives and credit unions, are now emerging as powerful models to combat climate change. Ministers take note...

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Darling holds his nerve

  • By Martin Bright
  • 27 November

The Chancellor's refusal to panic has won him respect, but his biggest test still lies ahead

That old top-rate myth

  • By James Macintyre
  • 27 November

As Labour shows itself willing to challenge the right-wing press, now is the moment for the party to prove it can be even bolder

How safe is your job?

  • By Iain Macwhirter
  • 27 November

This has been a year of financial panic, but 2009 will be dominated by unemployment. In a flexible labour market, with few legal protections, the indebted young will be hit hardest

Young, gifted and jobless: a generation in the red

  • By Alyssa McDonald and Liana Wood
  • 27 November

The under-35s are the most vulnerable

Getting and spending

  • By Peter Wilby
  • 27 November

The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
Allen Lane, 397pp, £25

Scotland the Broke

  • By Rob Brown
  • 27 November

Uncertainty and anxiety are the presiding moods north of Hadrian’s Wall as much as anywhere else. Scotland the Brave has become Scotland the Broke, reports Rob Brown

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Time for action on aid

Time for action on aid

To increase economic parity worldwide, developed countries must live up to their commitments to streamline aid and remove barriers to trade writes the UN Millennium Campaign founder

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