CBI carry on tradition of alarmingly optimistic growth forecasts
Alex Hern reports on the CBI’s (rather optimistic) predictions for growth in 2012
Yearly Archives: 2012
Cable calls for return of industrial policy
Will Straw writes on Vince Cable’s attempt to reclaim the comparative advantage of British industry.
Dodds calls for action over “haemorrhaging” football talent to RoI
Ed Jacobs looks at what can be done to solve Northern Ireland’s footballing exodus – if it’s even a problem
NHS productivity gain is just the latest evidence that socialised medicine brings down costs
International evidence suggests that the NHS is efficent by global standards and this morning’s news that the NHS made productivity gains over the last decade just confirms that
The Left has to raise its voice on the Falklands
With the Falklanders’ right to self-determination at stake, the time has come for the Left to raise its voice.
World outside Westminster: ‘If you do not help us, we will be killed’
Chris Tarquini presents the World outside Westminster
It’s time to take mental ill health seriously
Ed Jacobs argues that the focus on mental health in the NHS bill purely in terms of government defeats shows that paucity of attention which it garners normally
The Week Outside Westminster – Robinson and McGuiness pray for the Reverend
Political leaders in Northern Ireland call for prayer for Ian Paisley, the propsoects for Scottish independence don’t look so great, and Welsh Labour defends the NHS in the principality.
In Defence of Quantitative Easing
In the absence of fiscal stimulus, that is an injection of government spending, and with interest rates at rock bottom, the alternative to quantitative easing is mass unemployment. We have no choice.
Look Left – Beginning of the end on the NHS bill
Alex Hern presents the round-up of this weeks news.