Why the government should be spending more on public spaces
Cuts to local authority budgets mean children are increasingly unable to enjoy green spaces in cities
public spending
Comment: George Osborne has no idea what these cuts will mean to people
Expect cuts to public services and further slashing of support for the vulnerable
RBS: Osborne hands back control to the people who caused the financial crisis
By blindly going along with the idea that banks do not belong in public hands, the government is simply rebuilding the pre-2007 banking structure
Could Osborne’s budget plans actually work?
If the objective is to reduce debt from one year to the next, neither a surplus – nor even a balanced budget – is strictly necessary
Osborne’s new budget law is about politics, not economics
The chancellor has presented the next Labour leader with an impossible choice
Once again on the myth of Labour’s ‘out of control’ spending
The Labour party got it wrong. Just not in the way you think
New report shows why public-private partnerships don’t work
Secrecy and concealed borrowing protect commercial rather than public interests
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
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
Labour’s defence of their economic record has gone unheard, not unsaid
Balls and Miliband have repeatedly explained the crisis in terms of the global crash – but they still face accusations of evasion