FT Alphaville have said in their mid morning email today: Economists at Barclays note that the rise in food prices brought on by this summer’s
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This photo is in a lot of papers this morning: The picture has been issued by H M Revenue & Customs. These people are alleged to
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I got an interesting insight yesterday into why Standard Chartered settled its case with regulators. Rumour has it they were terrified of having to put boss Peter Sands up
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It’s a new day. There’s a new banking scandal. This time it’s HSBC, Barclays and RBS on LIBOR. But let’s be clear, last week it
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Jeffrey Sachs has written this in the FT this morning: America’s two political parties depend on wealthy contributors to finance their presidential campaigns. These donors
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Rev Paul Nicholson has this letter in the Guardian this morning: The prime minster and the deputy prime minister announced spending of £9bn on the railways
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The following is a blog by Neil Wilson, who has agreed I may share it. What it shows is that despite the Treasury taking all the
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The British Medical Journal  has an article out this week on the relationship between suicides and unemployment in the UK, with an emphasis on the period 2008
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My TUC colleague Nicola Smith published a blog on the conundrum inherent in the UK’s employment statistics yesterday. As she put it: The jobs market continues to confound
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