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Politics and the polls: paying the price of success | Editorial
There are strong and serious reasons why this new Conservative optimism is neither deserved nor set in stoneMonth on month, opinion polls normally only move by fairly small amounts. In the world of...
View ArticleMartin Rowson on the government's economic policy – cartoon
News of renewed decline in unemployment is expected as inflation slides and housing market upturn starts to spread beyond LondonMartin Rowson
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Ed Miliband rejects Andy Burnham's criticisms over policy
Labour leader insists opposition 'has the answers' on how it would change the country and shrugs off party unrestEd Miliband slapped down Andy Burnham on Wednesday, rejecting the shadow health...
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Britain's dole queues shrink but young people remain the hardest hit
Number claiming JSA is at lowest level since 2009, as ministers seize on figures to claim economic boostMinisters have seized on news of a sharper than expected decline in the number of people claiming...
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Bad economic news for Europe is good news for Merkel and Cameron | Martin Kettle
These figures are proof not of a European recovery, but of the right's ability to exploit grim times in a way that eludes the leftAll politicians and observers of politics agree on one thing. A...
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No, this is not the road to recovery. It's the road to Wongaland | Ann Pettifor
The notion that the Bank of England base rate is dominant and we should all go shopping has already been puncturedIs Britain's economy once again plunging down a metaphorical rabbit hole into the...
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Osborne economics is not an invincible force of nature | John Harris
Although many appear resigned to life under this dysfunctional capitalism, there is a way to make the system less inhumanBritain is on the move, says George Osborne, from "rescue to recovery". But not...
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Faisal Islam: 'I do have regrets. There was a media as well as political...
The politics of property prices in Britain and why we should pay more attention to how other countries do thingsTo read an extract from Faisal Islam's book The Default Line click hereReading The...
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Home ownership: how the property dream turned into a nightmare
In this exclusive extract from his book, The Default Line, the economics editor for Channel 4 News traces the origins of the housing bubble and argues that we're condemning a whole generation to paying...
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Ashes to economy: why Australia may be on the brink of a new collapse
Australia emerged from the global recession largely unscathed, but now bears the hallmarks of an industrial base hollowed outAustralia always take defeat hard and to go into this week's final Ashes...
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Letters: UK's crying need for a publicly owned railway
Ian Birrell (Forget the nostalgia. Our trains are better than ever, 15 August) does not seem to travel much by train these days or to be very well informed about who runs them and how well or badly....
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CBI doubles George Osborne's economic growth forecast
Business lobby group cites growing confidence, forecasting UK growth of 1.2% this year and 2.3% in 2014The CBI has raised its forecast for UK economic growth this year to 1.2% – double the pace...
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In Cameron's casualised Britain, zero-hours contracts create a climate of...
These contracts are symptomatic of job insecurity and falling living standards. But Labour can offer a fairer way of workingKaren worked in the care sector. She had to be available to visit clients at...
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UK banks defer bonuses to beat top tax rate
Bonuses across the economy were all but flat in the year to March 2013 – but finance payouts up 4% to £38.6bn once April figures are taken into accountBritain's best-paid workers delayed bonus payments...
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Low pay is damaging the UK economy and holding back growth
We need a new economic model that returns the wage share closer to its post-war level, with big firms devoting more of their profits to payAcross the United States, co-ordinated walkouts against low...
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Europe can't take four more years of Angela Merkel's Thatcherism | Gabi Zimmer
The privatisation of public assets across the continent is destroying the European social model. Die Linke would protect itThe EU remains mired in the biggest economic mess since its foundation and the...
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UK government borrowing rises unexpectedly in July
Public sector net borrowing in July was £100m, compared with an £800m surplus in the same month last yearThe Treasury ran up a rare July deficit last month, raising doubts about the coalition's...
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: Faisal Islam on the financial crisis
The economic crisis that hit Europe and the US in 2008 took almost everyone by surprise. Yet once it was underway, it seemed to have so many obvious causes as to be inevitable.Housing bubbles,...
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Number of young jobless higher than when coalition came to power
Labour blames austerity for high number of NEETs – young people not in work, education or trainingThe number of young people not in work, education or being trained is higher than when the government...
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Ed Miliband needs to be sharper on economy, say Labour duo
John Denham and Peter Hain say Labour leader needs to return to economic theme and get more support from ministersEd Miliband has lost support in recent months because his key messages on the economy...
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