Cameron’s excuses don’t add up
Cormac Hollingsworth explains why, although we don’t know what did cause Cameron to walk out of the EU talks, we can be pretty sure what it wasn’t.
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Grim economic news II: OECD cut UK growth prediction. Again
Alex Hern follows up yesterday’s economics round-up with another day of bad news. This time the OECD and Fitch have joined in, both predicting a slow-down.
Inflation starts to head lower (probably)
Tony Dolphin analyses the latest inflation figures, the Consumer Price Indices November 2011 report.
More grim news: Economists predict UK will be back in recession in 2012
Alex Hern reports on the projection that the British economy will fall into recession in 2012.
Women’s work – an opportunity for growth we can’t afford to pass up
James T. Plunkett looks at why increased participation in the workforce by women may be the key to growth that this government needs.
Cameron sells out UK manufacturing for his loony backbenchers
Tony Burke details what we should expect from Cameron’s isolationism and how that will harm UK manufacturing.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland savage Cameron’s anti-EU strategy
Ed Jacobs rounds up the withering contempt of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to David Cameron’s pathetic anti-European posturing.
Deal or no deal for England’s cities
A look at the government’s new plan for ‘tailored city deals’; if the practice lives up to the rhetoric, it could be a strong driver of growth in the cities.
EU summitry is futile; this is a global financial crisis, not a eurozone crisis
Ann Pettifor explains how the current European Union summit is futile – we are in a global financial crisis, not just a crisis of the eurozone.
Cameron didn’t sign EU deal because it’s not in the interests of the one per cent
David Cameron’s cowering reliance on the City was exposed for the world to see this morning when he refused to sign the City up to a Financial Transaction Tax.