‘Special factors’ help GDP grow 1% in Q3 2012 and end double dip recession
Following three quarters of contraction, UK GDP grew 1% in the third quarter of 2012, taking the country out of the double-dip recession – thanks to the Olympic boost.
Shamik Das
Survival rates for the rarer cancers continue to trail behind
Statistics released yesterday show an overall increase cancer survival rates over recent years – yet for the rarer cancers, survival rates remain low.
Gummer attacks Daily Mail: “You will not learn the facts on gas” if you read it
Speaking at today’s TUC’s climate change conference, John Gummer, the Tory head of the Climate Change Committee, launched a stinging attack on the Daily Mail.
Phone hacking: Net closes in on Piers Morgan’s Mirror
The phone hacking heat was turned up on Piers Morgan last night, as the Daily Mirror became the first non-Murdoch title to face legal action.
More and more of Cameron’s “hard-working people” are reliant on Housing Benefit
More and more working people are reliant on Housing Benefit – contrary to what the prime minister claims.
Miliband reiterates One Nation message with attack on “sink or swim” Tories
Shamik Das looks ahead to Ed Miliband’s speech to the TUC “A Future That Works” march in London today.
Campbell: 2015 “will be the first genuine social media election”
Alastair Campbell last night said he believed the 2015 general election will be the first “genuine social media election”, reports Shamik Das.
Look Left – Pain for Cameron, Gain for Obama, and decision day for Scotland
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Watch: Cameron, quizzed on ‘secret’ Brooks emails, says: “I’m not going to answer”
David Cameron today point blank refused to answer a question on whether he would publish ‘secret’ emails between himself and Rebekah Brooks.
Watch: PMQs: ‘A night in the cell for yobs, a night at the Carlton Club for Mitchell’
Ed Miliband went on the attack over ‘pleb gate’ at the first post-conference season Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament today, reports Shamik Das.