The FT throws a grenade at Osborne (and Balls)

Yesterday’s lead article on the front page of the Financial Times was positively incendiary (“Osborne faces doubling austerity cuts to … More

Government ‘economic fairytale’ unravels

In the first 6 months of the financial year, from April 2014, government borrowing was £58 billion. In September alone … More

There was an interesting Financial Times editorial today on “the central fact of British politics, the fiscal deficit”. It bemoans … More

Download a PDF of this document here autumnstatement2013 As with every budgetary statement by George Osborne, the use of statistics … More

“Six more years of austerity” trumpeted the Financial Times in reporting George Osborne’s promise to carry on squeezing welfare and … More

“Cuts in welfare payments will hit the local economies of northern towns and cities as much as five times as … More