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Shamik Das rounds up the reaction to this morning’s growth figures.
With the outlook for output growth deteriorating, it is hard to see how the UK can avoid falls in employment in the third and fourth quarters of 2010 – a jobs recession.
Today’s growth figures are the latest evidence the coalition’s rapid spending cuts have pushed the UK economy from the fastest growth for a decade towards zero.
After “the Friday of the no-fly zone”, Alex Hern assesses the possibility of external help for the Syrian protesters.
Alex Hern covers the latest developments on Occupy London, including the tenuous claims of Paul Staines.
The lessons from Saul Alinksy for the Occupy LSX protesters may be to set themselves a deadline to leave Paternoster Square, and link up with left-wing Christians.
Ed Jacobs rounds up press reaction, overwhelmingly positive in both the South and North, to the election of Michael Higgins to the Irish Presidency .
Will Straw details what to expect from tomorrow’s OBR figures on growth, why they’re likely to be lower than predicted, and how that affects Osborne’s plans to continue his austerity programme.
One year on from the Emergency Budget and the Spending Review, it is becoming abundantly clear the coalition government’s austerity plan – Plan A – isn’t working.
The outgoing leader of Labour MSPs at Holyrood, Iain Gray, has issued a warning to his successor once they are elected in December, reports Ed Jacobs.
