George Osborne
Osborne set to U-turn on QE – so why not on Plan B?
Chancellor George Osborne looks set to give the green light to a second round of Quantitative Easing - a policy he once described as “an admission of failure”.
“Unrealistic assumptions”? Who is Mr Osborne talking about?
Last night, Geroge Osborne never named those he felt should be busy re-examining their view of the world. Could it be that the answer lies close to home?
Britain in the growth slow lane as demand for staff stalls
Yesterday's Eurostat data on EU growth and this morning's Recruitment and Employment Confederation/KPMG Report on Jobs contain more depressing news on the economy.
Bombardier decision threatens thousands of supply chain jobs
A new business survey conducted by Survation for Unite the Union explores the full scale of the industrial fallout if the Bombardier decision is not reversed.
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker of the year: Alex Salmond
If the theory goes that British Politics is becoming increasingly presidential in style, with the focus less on the parties and ever more on individual leaders themselves then Alex Salmond has taken the theory and turned it into a successful art form.
Head bond vigilante brands Osborne’s strategy economic “suicide”
Gidoen Osborne's economic strategy has been savaged by the head bond vigilante Bill Gross, branding it "suicide", reports Left Foot Forward's Cormac Hollingsworth.