UK growth down as IMF warn deficit reduction should not be at the expense of growth
The UK economy barely grew in the second quarter of 2011, GDP up just 0.1 per cent, as the IMF said deficit reduction should not be at the expense of growth.
Green Politics
A lesson from Delhi for Boris
Navin Shah AM argues Boris Johnson could learn from Delhi about running a sustainable transport network.
Exposed: Boris Johnson’s efforts to evade air pollution rules
Darren Johnson AM exposes Boris Johnson’s efforts to evade the European rules limiting air pollution in major cities.
Reducing job security won’t decrease unemployment
Sara Ibrahim shows how reducing job security by weakening the tribunals system won’t decrease unemployment.
Just who WILL Osborne listen to?
We’re in a unique political economy, one in which there is no market discipline on the government pursuing the wrong economic policy. The sight of George Osborne starting his speech with the FTSE down 1.8% best illustrates the economists’ problem:test
Government continues not being greenest ever
Following on from Hammond’s environmentally destructive attempt at populism on Friday, the Conservatives have this weekend struck two more blows against their own claim to be the greenest government ever. Firstly, Friends of the Earth released a report which concludedtest
Osborne dreaming of a race to the bottom
Alex Hern argues that much of the chancellor George Osborne’s plans for economic growth will put the UK in a race to the bottom which it cannot possibly win.
Gideon’s grotesque attempt to blame workers’ rights for unemployment
George Osborne’s speech Tory party conferencetoday was (amongst other things) a transparent attempt to shift the blame for unemployment to workers’ rights.
Council tax freeze is a tax cut for the rich
Pete Challis explains how much more the rich benefit from a council tax freeze than the poor do.
FTSE suffers worst quarterly fall since 2002 as fears rise of “Great Stagnation”
The FTSE fell 13.7 per cent since the start of July – the worst quarterly fall since Q3 2002 and the fourth worst in its history, reports Shamik Das.