


Britain’s government wants bigger pension funds
That will help savers but won’t boost growth much
Over the past decade of political turmoil, few goals of government policy have been quite so consistent as that of rationalising the country’s mish-mash of pension schemes. In a speech in the City of London on November 14th Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, announced plans to consolidate local government pension schemes (LGPSs) into “megafunds”. Back in 2015 George Osborne, a previous chancellor, inaugurated his own push to merge them into “British wealth funds”.
Explore more

Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
Britain’s grace-and-favour houses offer an odd mix of the political and the personal

Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
Women’s football in England has big ambitions

Britain’s star builder hits trouble
Home truths for Vistry, and questions for the government
How to frame the argument over clean power
An unlikely political lesson from Ed Miliband, Britain’s energy secretary
Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
The strange politics of wage compression
The archbishop and the abuser
Why Justin Welby decided, eventually, to resign