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The Chris Cook Economics 3.0 column I recently posted here on the possibility of consolidating existing dated UK gilt-edged debt into two new pools of undated debt. This perceived attack on the system really brought out the heavy guns in…
By Julian Ware-Lane / @warelane I work at the Ford Motor Company site in Dunton, near Basildon in Essex, and so the recession and the government's attempts to drag us out of it are of personal interest to me. So far, the automotive industry…
By Brian Barder In the last few days the Tories have been discomfited, and Labour correspondingly heartened, by divisions within the Tory ranks over the National Health Service. These have highlighted the chasm which separates the party's…
The Chris Cook Economics 3.0 column There was an interesting piece of financial pornography in the Financial Times yesterday by Professor Michael Hudson, who was US Congressman Dennis Kucinich's economic advisor during his brief…
By Joe Cox Tom Harris' post this morning referred to a very powerful analogy for New Labour thinking that read as follows: "There's a terrific scene in the TV adaptation of Chris Mullin's A Very British Coup in which the newly-elected left…
By Tom Harris MP There's a terrific scene in the TV adaptation of Chris Mullin's A Very British Coup in which the newly-elected left wing prime minister, Harry Perkins, is catching the train to London and is asked by a journalist: "Do you…
By Joe Cox The acid test of any Labour government is whether it leaves society more equal than when it came to govern it. One of this Labour government's finest achievements is the minimum wage - but this does not end the vast dispersion of…
By Mike Aistrop I am becoming more and more irritated with the continuous attacks on the people who are claiming benefits. The benefit system is a God send to people who have fallen on hard times and need help. Yet this system is attacked…
By Peter Barnard In 1951, unemployment stood at just 188,000, representing just 0.8 per cent of the population registered as available for work. In 1964, there were 349,000 unemployed: 1.35 per cent of those 'available for work.' These are…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 It's not often we quote from the pages of the Daily or Sunday Mail on LabourList, but Vince Cable has written a good explanation of the improving economic signs in that paper today: "There is undoubtedly good…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 This is Philip Hammond, whom ConservativeHome say will be a "very powerful Deputy Chancellor" if the Tories win the next election. Mike Smithson even thinks it's a fair bet he'll be a Tory Chancellor at some…
By Joe Cox An analysis of the dynamic of the market and society is at the heart at everything Compass does. Where are markets failing? Where are they are working? Where should they be restrained and where is competition needed? All these…
