autumn statement
Osborne proved the doommongers wrong – the economy is even worse than we predicted
The economy has done even worse than Osborne's critics on the left feared - and now we all have to pay the price.
How Osborne’s locked in to making the bad times worse
If the government misses its targets for growth and spending, it will be forced to cut further - making the bad times worse. Oh Goodee!
Who is paying for the chancellor’s announcements?
Richard Exell follows the money on the chancellor's autumn statement, and finds that it's the poor who are paying the price.
“We’re all in this together” – when ‘we’ means the bottom 80%
Will Straw examines the regressive nature of the chancellor's autumn statement
How the OBR’s growth projections have fallen
Will Straw runs through the OBR's plummeting growth projections
Osborne’s stimlu-lite is more pork for vested interests
Alex Hern warns that, necessary as an economic stimulus is, it could simply end up being a hand-out to big business.