We are told time and again that the major economies of the world, who are  borrowing funds to finance their deficits, will be going bust
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Alan Johnson has launched Labour’s counter attack to George Osborne before the latter reached the despatch box. He has said the coalition government is taking
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I did a quite lengthy blog on Friday explaining the absurd logic of those Tories in particular who are claiming thatthere will be no net
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It’s already clear what the Tory defence of the cuts to be announced on Wednesday will be. The Tory think tank, the Centre for Policy
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Martin Wolf has become an unlikely hero of the left of late — because of his clear support for Keynesian thinking. But leopards don’t change
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As the TUC blog points out this morning: A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the ‘private sector is set to go “cold turkey” and
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The debate on tuition fees misses a number of core issues. It’s been rightly noted that it treats education as if it is training, and
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As the FT reports: The apparent resilience of public sector wage growth compared with the private sector largely reflects the nationalisation of two of Britain’s
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The ConDem fantasy is staggering. The Mail reports: A quarter of incapacity benefit claimants will be forced to return to work immediately as part of
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