Credit rating agencies beaten by a spreadsheet
Alex Hern reports on yet more news showing the uselessness of credit ratings agencies
Yearly Archives: 2012
Daily Mail 2009: Ratings agencies ‘critical’, 2012: ‘Doom-mongers’
Alex Hern looks at some classic Daily Mail hypocrisy
Employment figures mask the rise in under-employment
Duncan Wheldon argues that even the mediocre employment figures released today STILL overstate the positive news
How the coalition is breaking the NHS
Alex Hern reports on the release of the new report on the NHS reforms, Breaking the NHS
Scotland unites in wanting to save Rangers
Ed Jacobs reports on the reactions to the bankruptcy of Rangers, and hopes for a saviour to prevent it ending.
Get Google Alerts? You’ll have to pay Murdoch, Desmond and co. £150
Alex Hern reveals the plans of Britain’s leading newspaper cartel to monetise Google Alerts and Google News
Leaked documents expose multi-million dollar climate disinformation campaign
Joss Garman exposes the million dollar links between climate sceptic scientists and the oil companies
UK unemployment rate overtakes US for first time since recession started
Will Straw compares the UK’s record on jobs with the US’s: We no longer look so hot.
Youth unemployment, Job Centres, and me
Harriet Williams shares her experience as one of the million plus unemployed under-26 year olds.
Syria: There is no simple solution
Direct military intervention in Syria is neither desirable nor possible; in sum, there’s no simple solution, writes Left Foot Forward’s George Irvin.