The Osborne Effect: Growth halved in just 12 months
Today the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) released a report suggesting that George Osborne has…
Economy
Austerity is political
That there is ‘no money left’ is presented to us as an economic fact of life. The Conservatives have embraced…
Ed, the copycat coalition and the cuts
Today Ed Miliband started the long fightback. He knows he can’t win on style, so he has to…
Ed’s speech – A great start that now needs to be rammed home
Those who welcomed the publication of In The Black Labour just over a month ago will be cautiously…
The graph Osborne doesn’t want you to see
There’s been some complacency and some crowing today as economic growth was revised up from 0.5% to 0.6%…
What Moody’s warning says about Osborne’s Economy
In 18 months of coming to power, this Government have stalled growth, raised unemployment, and pitched a fight…
5 new economic messages for Labour in 2012
The Guardian today highlights a little anxiety among the Shadow Cabinet about the difficulty in finding the right…
A pre-Christmas outbreak of cross-party harmony? (Not quite)
What should have been the big day in the spotlight for financial services regulation was rather overshadowed by…
Labour backs banking reform plans
