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Unemployment down 57,000 to 2.51 million
Unemployment decreased by 57,000 between March 2013 and May 2013 to 2.51 million, with the unemployment rate now at 7.8 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
Why is Liam Byrne so keen to out-do the Tories on social security cuts?
It is well known these cuts have been savage, unfair, and that they seriously affect the disabled. But what if they actually targeted the disabled, hitting them the hardest, piling all the harshest cuts on the services that are actually the most vital?
Cameron insults Srebrenica dead by hosting Thein Sein
Last week the eighteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre passed, prompting a chorus of sombre statements from European leaders.
We have won same-sex marriage. Now we must fight for trans* rights
Yesterday the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill passed its final stage in the House of Lords, making same-sex marriage legal in England and Wales.
Why do we think there’s a magic solution to child benefit?
If there is anything that really gets up the nose of the right it’s single mothers on benefits. No, in fact it’s any parents claiming benefits, as the sorry media sage around Mick Philpott demonstrated.
Vince Cable fails to step up to the mark on beneficial ownership by asking corporate fraudsters to self certify their identities
The following was published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) this morning.
Graph: Falling pay under the Tories
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the rate of inflation has increased to 2.9 per cent in June, up from 2.7 per cent in May.
Proponents of Trident are trapped in a bygone era
The argument for keeping the Trident nuclear deterrent boils down to the following: by getting rid of Trident Britain will lose its position as a leading world power; it will also leave the country open to attack by hostile powers.
BBC slavishly follows government line on impact of benefits cap
It is disappointing to again see the BBC reporting government statistics on the benefits cap without even the remotest hint of challenge as to what they mean.
Daniel Hannan: wrong about everything on the benefit cap
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has a piece in today’s Telegraph in which he claims the left has “lost its moral compass on welfare”.