Women’s representation in movies: Not half good enough
Many have been outraged by BBC attitudes towards women from sports personality to nominating a panda as a female face of 2011 but Hollywood does little better.
Daniel Elton
Exposed: Richard Branson the cuddly union-buster
Virgin boss Richard Branson has a modern cuddly image, but he’s just an old-fashioned union-buster at heart.
The cost of Kim Jong-Il
Life under Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea who died on Saturday, has been unbearable for most, facing political 0ppression and widespread malnutrition.
Five reasons to oppose the welfare bill
The welfare reform bill will penalise the disabled, those working class communities who live in inner cities and second-earners who work over 16 hours a week.
The perversity of Dan Hannan and the “there are no cuts” brigade
Daniel Hannan and that ‘there are no public sector cuts’ brigade are being perverse. By their framing, we could end up much poorer & they could declare victory.
OBR confirm Osborne will borrow more than the Darling projection
In his Autumn statement, George Osborne confirmed that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now projects that the government will borrow more than Alistair Darling was projected to at the time of the last election. This puts the OBR intest
Whatever Osborne’s growth forecasts today, the reality is probably worse
Today’s growth and borrowing forecasts are likely to be grim – they are just as likely to be over optimistic.
UK growth – bottom of the table, wallowing with the PIGS
UK Growth is miserable and about to dive into recession according to the OECD. However, the government can’t blame it all on external factors – we’re doing worse than most OECD countries.
Kellner: The public don’t like the Tories, but they’ve signed up to their economic argument
Daniel Elton covers the latest data from YouGov and finds that unpopular as they may be, the Tories rhetoric on the economy still rules the roost.
Osborne set to borrow billions more than Darling was projected to
The city now predicts that Osborne will borrow far more than the OBR predicted Alistair Darling would have. It’s time for a radical change.