OECD calls on Gove to save EMA
James Mills reports on the OECD’s calls for the coalition government to bring back EMA to help reduce its huge debt, and return growth to the UK economy.
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As fuel duty cut is wiped out, calls grow to wean nation off oil
George Osborne’s much heralded penny cut in fuel has already been wiped out by rising oil prices – less than two weeks on from the announcement, reports Shamik Das.
Coalition savaged by dead sheep and Salmond
Ed Jacobs with the latest attacks on the coalition from elder statesmen inside and outside the party.
Osborne’s raid on UK households
Matthew Pitt reports on the latest economic blunder from chancellor George Osborne.
Osborne needs to set clear objectives that meet real social needs
we need to recognise that driving industrial transformation is about more than vaguely demanding GDP growth, but of setting clear objectives that meet real social needs, writes James Meadway of the new economics foundation.
Budget 2011: Osborne’s greenwash won’t wash
Alexis Rowell, of Cutting the Carbon – www.cuttingthecarbon.com – reviews the budget’s green failures.
Economic challenges could be helped through collective bargaining
Britain’s two main economic challenges – industry revitalisation and boosting consumer spending – could be helped through a greater role for collective bargaining, writes Chris Wright.
Corp Tax cut cheerleaders WPP move headlines, not jobs to UK
It turns out that there’s less than meets the eye – for jobs and tax take – to WPP’s much trumpeted possible move to the UK following the annouced corp tax cut.
Budget 2011: Osborne’s contempt for the nation’s youth
James Mills, of the Save EMA campaign, on how George Osborne’s Budget put profit before young people.
Budget 2011: Distributional analysis of coalition’s major tax changes
In the wake of yesterday’s Budget, Tim Horton and Howard Reed present an updated distributional analysis of the effects of the coalition’s major direct and indirect tax changes.