China GDP forecast to be just under 7%
Economists are predicting the slowest growth rate in the country since the depths of the financial crisisThe importance of China to the global financial system is to be illustrated again on Monday as...
View ArticleSolar industry bosses attack government over jobs and subsidies
One solar executive says the 87% cut in state subsidy is ‘obscene’, and will lead to thousands of job lossesSome of Britain’s most powerful solar executives have accused the government of mounting an...
View ArticleSteel closures and reforging our economy | Letters
For years governments of every political stripe have ignored the deindustrialisation of the UK and been in thrall to the City and the service sector (Where’s the entrepreneurial state when it’s really...
View ArticlePoverty goals? No, it’s extreme wealth we should be targeting | Zoe Williams
If we had focused on the real causes of poverty over the past 30 years we probably wouldn’t need the United Nations’ sustainable development goals nowThe sustainable development goals– 17 in all,...
View ArticleThe dangers of underestimating rises in student numbers | Letters
According to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), letting English universities recruit as many students as they like will mean 1,000 more home and EU undergraduates in the coming years. Given...
View ArticleTax credits should not be used to subsidise low-wage employers
Owen Jones is right to highlight the plight of the working poor but wrong to suggest the answer should have ever been tax credits (Opinion, theguardian.com, 16 October). It can never be right to...
View ArticleChinese reactor plan fuels British security fears | Letters
A lesson learned from the otherwise successful UK gas-cooled reactor programmes was that excessive diversity of design prevents economies of scale during construction and is inefficient during the...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on the Chinese president’s visit: a big gamble | Editorial
Britain wants a close long-haul economic relationship with China, but there are huge risks aheadPresident Xi Jinping’s three nights under the Queen’s roof, his address to both houses of parliament, his...
View ArticleThis isn’t a poll tax moment, and the Tories know it | Polly Toynbee
Tax credit cuts will hit struggling families, but Osborne has plenty of budgets to put things rightHow threatening is the head of steam building up against the chancellor’s savage tax credits cuts?...
View ArticleOsborne is all for renationalisation – so long as the nation isn’t Britain |...
What do we get for flogging our nuclear to China and France? £17bn of risk and not much benefit• Aditya Chakrabortty will be taking questions in an online Q&A later today, to get involved...
View ArticleWhat if the Chinese were to ‘raise human rights’ with us? | Simon Jenkins
The British could pretend to care about China’s human rights, but it would be impolite, pointless, hypocritical and probably counter-productiveBritish ministers are to “raise human right concerns” with...
View ArticlePhilip Hammond defends Foreign Office contractor over treatment of cleaners
Foreign secretary refuses to condemn Interserve after it called 14 cleaners to disciplinary meetings for writing letter to him about their low wagesThe foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, has refused to...
View ArticleScrap triple lock that protects state pensions, says thinktank chief
Paul Johnson, head of the IFS, says today’s pensioners have fared extraordinarily well relative to their predecessorsPensioners have benefited from an “amazing” period of rising living standards...
View ArticleHow to secure British jobs in a global economy | Letters
Your editorial (Should we be hitching our star so closely to Beijing’s wagon?, 20 October) and Martin Jacques’s article (China is rising as the US falls. Britain can’t ignore this reality, 20 October)...
View ArticleEU has made UK economy more dynamic, says Bank of England chief
In move likely to be seen as strengthening David Cameron’s hand, Mark Carney says union membership has opened up economy but also exposed it to shocksMark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England,...
View ArticleMark Carney: UK economy dynamic thanks to EU – video
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, speaking in Oxford on Wednesday evening gave a speech covering the UK’s position with the EU, from the Bank of England’s perspective. Carney said the...
View ArticleMario Draghi: ECB prepared to cut interest rates and expand QE
Bank’s president stuns markets with announcement, saying slowdown in emerging markets has weakened eurozone Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, has stunned markets by signalling...
View ArticleTax credits cuts 'will leave key workers up to £12,000 poorer by 2020'
Research reveals impact of cuts on public sector staff, including teaching assistants, community and childcare workersTeaching assistants, social workers and other key public sector workers could lose...
View ArticleThe UK’s deals worth billions with China: what do they really mean?
An extraordinary week of diplomacy for President Xi’s visit generated a series of far-reaching agreements on trade, technology and cultureBritain’s diplomatic elite has been rushed off its feet...
View ArticleOne law for steelworkers. Another for farmers | Kevin McKenna
The government needs to be as generous with the steel industry as it was with banks and farmersIt was the Queen I felt for most last week. As head of the Church of England we can only guess at the...
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