Irish Budget part one unveils “unpalatable decisions”
Ed Jacobs brings us the latest from Dublin as the Irish government grapples with the eurozone crisis.
Green Politics
Balls repeats his conference message – but the circumstances have changed
Cormac Hollingsworth reports on shadow chancellor Ed Balls’s op ed in today’s Times.
No-one borrows out of a borrowing crisis, except the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, Denmark…
Alex Hern takes to task the Tories’ repeated refrain, most recently voiced by Claire Perry MP, that no one else is borrowing their way out of a borrowing crisis.
Immigration policy should support UK economic growth, not undermine it
This week the coalition government has new cause to regret strapping itself to a pledge of reducing net migration to the “tens of thousands” per year by 2015.
Borrowing more to borrow less may not be political suicide
Leo Barasi examines whether the arguments that Labour can’t politically support deficit spending for growth hold up against the polling data.
Economic update, December 2011 – UK teeters on brink of recession
IPPR’s senior economist Tony Dolphin looks at the key economic indicators and reviews the state of the economy in his latest economic update for Left Foot Forward.
The SNP one-ups Osborne on infrastructure investment
Ed Jacobs writes about the Scottish infrastructure investment plan, announced mere days after the Conservative one.
A new strategy to help save UK manufacturing
Unite has launched a new strategy to help save UK manufacturing, writes Assistant General Secretary Tony Burke.
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.
Government needs to find a way to tackle high-cost lending
Johann Lamont writes about the necessity of fighting the legal loan sharks who prey on the vulnerable poor.