The Tory plan to cut 50 parliamentary constituencies and so 50 MPs comes before the Commons today. Tristram Hunt — a Labour MP — has
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The FT reports George Osborne has scrapped the pre budget report. It would have been absurd not to this year — he’s doing it, in
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It’s fascinating to note that Jersey, that bastion of the free movement of capital is so ready to argue to restrict access for labour: ISLANDERS
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I love this from the BBC File on Four web site: A BBC investigation has uncovered questions over whether Iranian ships have been registered in
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As the Observer notes today: European Union finance ministers will step up talks on raising extra money from banks this week amid signs that the
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The likelihood of double dip recession is growing. As the FT notes: Purchasing managers’ data in construction, manufacturing and services have all dropped in recent
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I argued the other day that “there is an alterative” to cuts. It’s good to see Martin Wolf strongly endorsing Ed Balls for saying so.
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I note the following on the BBC Today programme web site: David Cameron’s communications chief Andy Coulson "has no case to answer" over continuing allegations
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The above is not the title Paul Krugman used for a recent blog, but it could have been. he said: [O]n average, debtors are more
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