George Osborne’s opposition to the Financial Transactions Tax is the height of madness
Angela Merkel, right-leaning Mariano Rajoy, and the man dubbed ‘Italy’s Tony Blair’ all support it, so why doesn’t George Osborne?
Green Politics
The jobs recovery continues, but with insecure low paid work in the ascendency
Despite the continuing good news on unemployment, many people are still feeling the squeeze.
Unemployment down 133,000 to 2.21 million
Unemployment decreased by 133,000 from January to March 2014 to 2.21 million, with the unemployment rate now at 6.8 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
We need long-term prosperity over short-term, damaging and unequal greed
Business must be coupled with sustainability so we all benefit from growth.
If Gary Barlow had committed benefit fraud Cameron wouldn’t be so sympathetic
We should be a lot angrier about the antics of people like Gary Barlow than about purported benefit fraud.
Daniel Hannan is wrong: we don’t need to be poorer to be more equal
Daniel Hannan has got it wrong (again). A poorer society is less likely to be a more equal society.
Dominic Raab accuses David Davis of ‘dangerous socialist populism’
According to comments by Tory MP Dominic Raab, Vince Cable – and by extension David Davis – are giving in to “dangerous socialist populism”.
Problem debt: not just damaging for adults, but children too
A new report by the Children’s Society highlights the damage being done to children by debt.
Britain’s burgeoning personal debt crisis
Carl Packman reviews Solving Britain’s Personal Debt Crisis, by Damon Gibbons.
Britain’s economic growth is not a sign that austerity works
The economic recovery is due to a “combination of the depth of the hole it found itself in, the moderation in the trend toward deeper and deeper austerity and the effects of possibly bubble-creating government loans”, according to former United States secretary of the treasury Larry Summers.