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Figures show huge rise in zero-hours contracts
Revised figures released by ONS show insecurity becoming the norm in job market, says LabourThe scale of the use of zero-hours contracts has been revealed after official figures showed that nearly...
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A Bigger Prize review – the price we pay for competition
Margaret Heffernan's brave study shows how the competitive instinct can be bad for us in all walks of life, from sport to financeWhile studying natural selection, William Muir, a geneticist at Purdue...
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Scotland's dirty secret: it has Thatcherites too | Andy Beckett
Tartan Toryism helped Thatcher win. After the referendum, we'll know how deep it really runsScotland has a dirty secret. Many Scots liked Thatcherism. But these people have been written out of history:...
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Why David Miliband is wrong about humanitarian goals
The drive to create a humanitarian counterpart to the millennium development goals will detract from the priority of saving lives, says Médecins Sans Frontières analyst In a recent opinion piece in the...
View ArticleCyprus central bank governor resigns - as it happened
Japanese GDP expanded 0.7% in fourth quarter – down from an earlier estimate of 1.0%Sean FarrellNick Fletcher
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Give and take in the EU-US trade deal? Sure. We give, the corporations take |...
I have three challenges for the architects of a proposed transatlantic trade deal. If they reject them, they reject democracyNothing threatens democracy as much as corporate power. Nowhere do...
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Ed Balls defies critics and defends jobs guarantee plan
Shadow chancellor says plan will be funded by levy on bankers' bonuses and pension tax changes but idea is criticised by thinktanksEd Balls has stood by Labour's first election manifesto promise – a...
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'Ending world poverty is an unrealistic goal'
Relative poverty is unpreventable. The global development community should focus its energies on reducing inequalityDespite the on-trend rhetoric and optimism, the chances of (all but) ending absolute...
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Five barriers to job creation
From red tape and infrastructure to mismatched skills, what are the five key obstacles to getting more people into work?Seeking solutions to global unemployment is an urgent and pressing development...
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North Sea oil is key to an independent Scotland | Gavin McCrone
The pound and the EU are important issues for the health of the economy. But without this revenue stream it would sufferA small country may sometimes do better economically if it is independent than as...
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The budget day spectacle shows adversarial politics at its worst | Alex Andreou
Egos in government departments are inflated or bruised all too easily as they fight for the same pot. It's time for a deeper debateThe Institute of Economic Affairs has published a paper with several...
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Our economic yardsticks are broken – they offer no warning of catastrophe |...
The government's central measure of success should be improvements in the incomes of typical families, not GDPIn next week's budget the chancellor, George Osborne, will announce the best economic...
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Scotland's deficit of £12bn damages Alex Salmond's case for independence
Fall in North Sea oil revenues cut Scotland's revenues by £4.5bn from the previous yearAlex Salmond's economic case for independence endured a blow after it emerged that oil revenues are due to decline...
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The UK's dwindling R&D spending makes its talk of innovation ring hollow
With a smaller percentage of GDP going on research than was spent in the 1980s, no wonder productivity figures are grimThe phrases are familiar enough: innovation is critical to a modern economy;...
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: EU referendum promises, GDP and job guarantees
Ed Miliband announced this week that Labour would hold an EU in-or-out referendum in the next parliament – but only in the unlikely event of a new European treaty transferring powers from London to...
View ArticleThe 40% tax bracket: a stealth tax on the middle classes? | Reality Check |...
Taxing the middle classes is one of the big stories in the build up to the annual Budget. Opponents warn that 1m more people will be paying the higher 40% rate. But is this a stealth raid by the...
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A threat to democracy? The EU-US trade deal is no such thing | Ken Clarke
George Monbiot paints the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as a corporate plot. It's a bizarre overreactionGeorge Monbiot is convinced that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
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How Rihanna's love of New Balance helped revive Cumbrian shoemaking
Bajan pop star's endorsement of trainers has fuelled a boom in business for the factory in the small village of FlimbyFlimby in Cumbria is the last place you would associate with Rihanna. Looking over...
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Afghanistan in transition: will small businesses survive?
The donor community must focus its aid to support livelihoods as the political and economic landscape rapidly changesOn 7 March the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (Icai) has just published its...
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To plug the north-south gap, the only way is Manchester | Simon Jenkins
Bolstering the north's biggest city would help provincial England to challenge London's privilege and dominanceThe north is coming. If Scotland departs the union, it will be the north, not Wales, that...
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