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By VoteRedGoGreen I've been thinking recently about the comparisions between the Credit Crunch and the post-9/11 crisis in foreign policy, mostly in terms of how leaders have chosen to respond to the emergent situation. In 2001, the US/UK…
From @LabourList In a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon, Gordon Brown outlined his plan for the last year of this Parliament. These commitments include: * Cleaning up politics by delivering a radical programme of democratic…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Ed Balls has just given a commanding performance on the Andrew Marr show, speaking at length about pubic expenditure and the tough choices the government is making to beat the recession. With the interview…
By Dan McCurry In an article in the Economist entitled The Lessons of 1937, Christine Romer, chair of Barack Obama's Council of Economic Adviser,s appears to give public backing Gordon Brown's policy of continued public spending and appears…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In a wide-ranging new interview with the Times newspaper, the Prime Minister has reaffirmed his enthusiasm for the job and thrown down a bold challenge to the Conservative challengers: "We are prepared to take…
By Brian Barder Some disconnected thoughts on the present discontents: David Cameron's merciless, if tiresomely and unnecessarily repetitive, dismembering of the prime minister in Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) over the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Tories are already planning meetings to bind governmental departments to wholesale public service cuts, a year before an election is due. George Osborne, were he to make it to Number 11, would hold a…
By John Cowan A number of manufacturing companies are currently struggling. Look at LDV: it's tragic for the workers and their familes, who depend on LDV for their living. It's hard to belive that a once great nation whose wealth was…
The Chris Cook Economics 3.0 column "The problem is that the State will soon be larger than the taxpayers' willingness to fund it". So opined the Financial Times on 23rd June in the course of a major feature "The State of Britain". The FT…
By Toby Flux According to an ICM poll for The Guardian published earlier this week, Labour lags the Conservatives as the party with the best economic team by a whopping sixteen points. The coordinated attack on David "Mr 10%" Cameron is a…
By Duncan Weldon The major news on the 'political economy' front this week came on Wednesday with Andrew Lansley's comments on cutting 10% of public spending, excluding health and education. ConservativeHome was quick to attack this for not…
From @LabourList Here, LabourList publishes an email exchange that occurred this morning between our two resident economic commentators, Duncan Weldon of the Economics Matters column and Chris Cook of Economics 3.0. The exchange is about…
