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Genuine liberals should support liberal Muslims like Maajid Nawaz against the literalists who would murder people over cartoons.
Unless we see a pick-up in productivity growth soon then the UK risks much slower growth, and lower living standards, in the future.
Any move now to increase interest rates might put the economic recovery at risk.
Unemployment decreased by 167,000 between September 2013 and November 2013 to 2.32 million, with the unemployment rate now at 7.4 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
John Denham is right about two things: we need more diverse higher education provision and we need to reassess the value for money of higher education.
Anyone taking a closer look at the figures can see that one measure of inflation has gone down, while the other has gone up.
Strikes, work-related illnesses and staff turnover are more common in organisations with bigger gaps between the highest and lowest earners.
Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.
UKIP are more than a man in a pub drinking a pint. Behind Farage’s Cheshire Cat grin are some dangerous policies.
Refusing to do away with loans and pussyfooting around business contributions are not the ingredients for a winning Higher Education system.
