Fall in real wages longest for 50 years, says ONS
Workers have experienced the longest fall in real wages since at least 1964, new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show.
According to the IFS, people really are worse off under the Tories
Despite the sort of spin that we saw last Friday, people really are worse off under the Tories.
What Dominic Raab won’t tell you about Article 8
Dominic Raab’s amendment to the Immigration Bill is based a selective interpretation of the data.
Britain wins in Europe. Only we don’t seem to notice
The UK government is on course to win around 90 per cent of its policy goals in Europe, despite polling showing that a majority of Britons believe the country is a loser in Europe.
Syrian refugees: this is a government gesture, not a real policy change
While on the face of it sounds as if the coalition is doing its international and humanitarian duty in offering a safe haven for Syrian refugees, the proposal to accept just a few hundred refugees – and on a temporary basis – smacks of gesture politics.
UK GDP up 0.7 per cent
UK GDP grew by 0.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the latest quarterly national accounts from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Consumer debt, another house price boom – what sort of recovery is this?
The chancellor has given up on any rebalancing of the economy and has fallen back on what can only lead, further down the line, to another crash.
How ‘insignificant’ really is 50p tax revenue?
So did the 50p rate of tax – introduced by Alistair Darling in 2009 – really raise a “statistically insignificant” sum, as the Independent’s editorial put it?
50p tax rate: play the world’s smallest violin for the rich
I won’t be playing the world’s smallest violin for those affected by the proposed 50p tax rate, and neither should you.
The coalition’s cost of living sleight of hand
The transparent attempt by the government to selectively reinterpret the data so as to downplay the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is frankly rather alarming.