Introducing George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator
With George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator you can predict the deficit in 2012/3 from growth in 2012
Yearly Archives: 2012
The five reasons why the NHS bill is still being opposed
Alex Hern presents the five worst things still in the coalition government’s anti-NHS health and social care bill.
The British Empire – subsidising Republican presidential candidates since 2007
U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney an awful lot of his wealth and income away from the yes of the American Treasury and in the Cayman Islands – international tax haven and overseas british territory, or in old-fashioned language, colony of the British Empire.
The need for disaster prophylaxis – managing the risk, not the crisis
Debbie Hillier of Oxfam reports on the findings of a report into the response to the Horn Of Africa disaster, the east Africa food crisis drought.
Ken pulls ahead of “increasingly out of touch” Boris
Ken Livingstone is neck-and-neck with Boris Johnson in the London Mayoral election, the latest poll has revealed, with the contest too close to call.
When the private sector collapses for a second time
Cormac Hollingsworth looks at what happens when the private sector collapses for a second time. It begins with D and ends with ouble dip recession.
Where next for apprenticeships after the heads of the schemes resign?
Alex Hern reveals the problems at the heart of the government’s apprenticeship scheme
What’s the point of the UUP?
Ed Jacobs asks whether, with continuing calls for a joint unionist party, there is any point in the UUP’s independent existence.
“The PM is wrong: the labour market is very weak”
Richard Exell runs through the latest figures from the labour market, and finds that “it is very weak and the prospects for unemployed people are very poor.”
European socialists call for regulation of the ratings agencies
Alex Hern reports on the calls from the Party of European Socialists to regulate the credit ratings agencies, and considers what the problems with such regulation may be.