Osborne has no reason to be smug: Britons are suffering an economic hangover
Debt has soared under the coalition – how will the chancellor spin that to his followers?
austerity
Austerity can never work – here’s why
Continuing down the path of austerity while ignoring straightforward – if politically difficult – solutions, will lead the UK closer to economic disaster
Welfare changes are crippling us, say Scottish single parents
New report shows lone parents being hit hardest by austerity measures north of the border
The coalition facilitated the rise of mass poverty
George Osborne may be a bad chancellor but he’s a good right-wing ideologue
Kickstarting a new anti-austerity feminism to protect victims of domestic violence
This government’s cuts to legal aid and specialist domestic violence services are putting thousands of women and children at risk
UK government planning biggest fiscal consolidation of 32 advanced economies, says IFS
If Osborne’s new plans to meet fiscal targets were to be implemented, public spending would hit lowest level since 1948
Comment: On Boris’s watch the police are on the precipice
London’s police service is ‘on the precipice of being destroyed’ according to the chairman of the Metropolitan Police
Comment: How Syriza became the most radical force in European politics
With Syriza’s victory in Greece many on the left are asking how a party which seven years ago received 4 per cent of the vote was able to become a radical force in Europe
Comment: What the British left can learn from Greece
What’s good for the European project is not always good for the people of Europe
New analysis confirms austerity has hit the poorest hardest
The coalition’s selective cuts have had a disproportionate impact on low-income families – but austerity still hasn’t helped the deficit