economics
Cameron ignores evidence literally in front of his face
Alex Hern reports on Ed Balls’s active background role in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, and his canny prepared graph.
There’s no prize in Sorrell’s race to the bottom
Alex Hern explains why Sir Martin Sorrell's feint over corporation tax is empty: he has no jobs to offer us, and wouldn't pay any tax even if he did move back.
No-one borrows out of a borrowing crisis, except the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, Denmark…
Alex Hern takes to task the Tories’ repeated refrain, most recently voiced by Claire Perry MP, that no one else is borrowing their way out of a borrowing crisis.
Borrowing more to borrow less may not be political suicide
Leo Barasi examines whether the arguments that Labour can’t politically support deficit spending for growth hold up against the polling data.
Devolved nations recoil from autumn statement
Ed Jacobs gives the round-up of how the devolved nations reacted to Osborne's autumn statement
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.