22 Oct 2014:
The manufacturing sector has changed significantly in postwar Britain, with its share of the economy falling to about 10% in 2013 from 36% in 1948, according to new analysis from the ONS
21 Oct 2014: Letters: Labour should recognise that, whatever the problems besetting the UK, shortage of money is not one of them. What is needed is the clear political will to tax unearned wealth fairly
21 Oct 2014: Phillip Inman: A bigger economy was supposed to mean profitable firms paying more tax. And more employment was supposed to push up income tax receipts
19 Oct 2014: Ha-Joon Chang: Falling wages, savage cuts and sham employment expose the recovery as bogus. Without a new vision we’re heading for social conflict
19 Oct 2014:
Wage protesters marched over the greatest slump seen in real pay for 150 years, last Saturday, but it is the march of technological advance that is driving a wedge between the country’s highest and lowest paid workers
19 Oct 2014:
Andy Haldane’s admission that he was gloomier about the economy surprised the markets, but he insists the UK is doing well in some respects, writes Katie Allen