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Labour has been hiding behind child poverty for far too long | Zoe Williams
In this harshly political age the left has to stop using child poverty as a way of avoiding a debate on income redistributionFamilies with children, through a combination of changes to tax and...
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David Cameron pledges to tackle 'health and safety monster'
Prime minister says cap on lawyers' earnings in cases for claims of up to £25,000 will help businessesLawyers will face a cap on the fees they can earn from health and safety cases, David Cameron...
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Labour told to accept spending cuts to be credible
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy tells the Guardian the party must reject 'shallow and temporary' populismLabour needs to avoid a populist approach, in which it opposes all government spending cuts,...
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Labour accepts £5bn of defence cuts as Jim Murphy rejects 'populism'
Shadow defence secretary says painful choices have to be accepted as he warns against 'populism' of opposing all cutsEurosceptic Tories, who loathe the EU's Lisbon treaty, found it difficult to take...
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Cameron vows to stop EU treaty signatories from isolating Britain
Prime minister says use of veto last month prevented 'treaty without safeguards' on single market and financial servicesDavid Cameron has said he will do "everything possible" to stop the signatories...
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Germany once admired British workmanship – but that was a long time ago | Ian...
Over the North Sea lies the richest country in Europe, its success built on the manufacturing industry that Britain has spurnedWe all want to be Germans now: to make, to sell and not to yield. We would...
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Ed Miliband: 'I always knew it was going to be a fight – it's one I relish'
The Labour leader is in a fighting mood despite a supposed crisis stemming from party discontent over his leadershipFor a man supposedly gripped by his first leadership crisis and bombarded by...
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Financial crisis could turn the tide against unrestricted capital flows
Boom-bust pattern has meant even IMF and Bank of England are rethinking regulationWatching as the Spanish government announced drastic new austerity measures, you could have been forgiven for thinking...
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Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists
Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktankBritain is struggling to shrug off the credit crisis; overworked parents are stricken with guilt about barely...
View ArticleA modern-day 'Colonel Bogey'
Chris Riddell rewrites an old song for the new yearChris Riddell
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Angela Merkel has the whip hand in an orgy of austerity
The notion that economic pain is the only route to pleasure was once the preserve of the British public school-educated elite, now it's European economic policyThe novelist and polymath Anthony Burgess...
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Fat cat pay: even David Cameron can see that the economy needs morality |...
The Tories have caught the mood of dismay over executive pay, but their switch could be good for Labour in the long termThe coalition's new crackdown on fat cat pay is very cheering for the left but,...
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Ed Miliband urged to start 'bigger and blunter' debate on public spending
Gavin Kelly, former adviser to Brown and Blair, suggests a whole Labour generation must unlearn its old model of politicsEd Miliband has been urged by a former senior Labour adviser to embark on "a far...
View ArticleMartin Rowson on David Cameron and City bonuses - cartoon
PM to push for shareholders to get a binding vote on executive pay dealsMartin Rowson
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Parties draw up battle lines over excessive executive pay
The Lib Dems want independent remuneration committees, David Cameron called for shareholder votes, while Labour accused him of dragging his feetBattle lines over "crony capitalism" were clearly drawn...
View ArticleShould the 50p tax rate be abolished?
David Cameron has announced that the government is committed to abolishing the 50p tax rate. The Liberal Democrats are insistent that it should not be abolished just to benefit the rich. Should the...
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Responsible capitalism is Labour's agenda | Stewart Wood
David Cameron is now desperately trying to prove he wants a better kind of capitalism, but it won't workIn Europe, economic crisis has thrown up a political paradox: in the wake of the most spectacular...
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Recession 'not foregone conclusion'
BCC predicts that growth will be flat this year, with one quarter of contraction, but says a full-blown recession is not inevitable if the government actsThe UK economy is set to stagnate in the first...
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Ed Miliband dismisses critics and promises new direction for Labour
Miliband dismisses criticism of leadership as 'noises off' and says coalition is losing the argumentEd Miliband has insisted he is prepared to make the tough decisions that will see Labour get back...
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Mario Monti fights back against eurozone austerity club
The Italian prime minister has warned that Italy's voters will not tolerate deeper cuts to the nation's budgetMario Monti, the Italian premier, was meant to be the technocrat's technocrat – a former...
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