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Letters: Matters of life, death and economics
It is the first duty of governments to protect the health and wellbeing of citizens. It is a priority objective of the EU, enshrined in legislation. Surveys show it is top of people's concerns. So when...
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Mervyn King's housing warning is too little, too late | Polly Toynbee
In a British economy addicted to property inflation, the government's Help to Buy scheme threatens Fannie Mae-style disasterThe French call it l'esprit de l'escalier, that brilliant thought on the way...
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UK inflation since 1948
Inflation in the UK has fallen for the first time since autumn 2012, hitting 2.4% in April. Get the full data over time, see how it compares with pay - and understand the new measures• Interactive...
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Royal Mail is doing well in the public sector – why privatise it? | Michael...
A business generating profits on this scale is worth vastly more to government than the proceeds of a sell-offThere are now 403 million reasons why Royal Mail should not be privatised. Financial...
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FTSE 100 within sight of all-time high
Index closes at 6803.87 – just 130 points below peak reached on 30 December 1999 at height of the dotcom boomThe London stock market is within sight of its all-time closing high after another surge in...
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Job security is a thing of the past - so millions need a better welfare...
Flexible labour markets have created a growing 'precariat', who should have the right to a basic standard of livingSo, millions of British workers are anxious and frustrated. Is anybody surprised at...
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Government will 'stick to its plans' when IMF delivers verdict on economy
No 10 says it will not anticipate what IMF will say but insists government has right economic approachDowning Street will launch a staunch defence of the government's economic strategy and says it will...
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£2.5bn deficit drop offers Osborne glimmer of hope with growth flatlining
ONS says public sector net borrowing was £6.3bn last month – lower than City expectations of an £8.5bn shortfallGeorge Osborne received a boost on Wednesday with news that the deficit was £2.5bn lower...
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Royal Mail workers balloted on privatisation plans
Union sends ballot papers to 112,000 postal workers calling on them to back stance against selloff and consider industrial actionMore than a 100,000 Royal Mail workers have been asked to vote for or...
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Deficit, national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946?
How bad is the deficit really? We bring you all the data going back to the 1940s• Get the dataHow bad is Britain's deficit? The latest set of figures show that Britain's deficit was £2.5bn lower in...
View ArticleSteve Bell on George Osborne's economic dilemma – cartoon
The IMF's health check on the UK has concluded that the country is 'still a long way from a strong and sustainable recovery'
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Falling investment poses another problem for Osborne
UK economy does need to rebalance towards investment, manufacturing and exports; thus far there is precious little sign of it happeningEd Balls and Chuka Umunna chose their moment well. On the day that...
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George Osborne puts his pride before the national interest | Ed Balls
An economically literate chancellor would rise to the challenge set down by the IMFThe International Monetary Fund is not usually known for racy language and dramatic press releases. When IMF chiefs...
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High street blight: are pound shops better than empty shops?
Even McDonald's has left Rochdale town centre. But what can struggling high streets do to bring shoppers back?The north-west of England has the highest number of empty shop units in the UK, and as big...
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G4S contract to run sexual assault referral centres damned
Campaigners criticise 'sell-off' of sensitive services to private company that bungled Olympics security contractG4S, the controversial private security company, is to run services providing medical...
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Why should Apple have access to consumers if it refuses to pay its fair share...
Countries are competing to provide the biggest tax breaks, the cheapest labour and the easiest regulation to attract the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, to the disadvantage of their own citizens....
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Mark Carney: Canada's rock-star banker faces four bars to success
The polished governor will inherit unprecedented circumstances in which success will be almost as hard to manage as failureFew decisions in British economic policymaking have been so acclaimed in...
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Space, the fiscal frontier: government looks to the skies for rebalancing
The UK's space industry is low-key, but a major player in satellite manufacturing – and some companies export 95% of their outputWhen Major Timothy Peake boards a Russian Soyuz rocket in late 2015 to...
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Britain is a lab rat for George Osborne's austerity programme experiment
There is no evidence – and never has been – that austerity works in the fashion promised by those who support itWhat do you think about George Osborne's austerity programme? No, I am not trying to be...
View ArticleAusterity: the History of a Dangerous Idea - video interview with author Mark...
Mark Blyth, author of Austerity: The History of A Dangerous Idea, argues that not only has the policy of slashing state spending so far failed to repair the economy, it can never work. Instead he...
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