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Archive for July, 2010
Chávez made simple by rolling Stone
By Patrick Mulcahy /Saturday, July 31st, 2010Opt-out scheme for executives will hit employee pensions
By Bernard Purcell /Saturday, July 31st, 2010Workers could lose money if bosses opt out
Final curtain comes down on rascally Ross
By Stephen Kelly /Friday, July 30th, 2010From now on, it’s Friday night with someone else – at least until Jonathan Ross pitches up on ITV
Calamity Clegg’s own goal on home turf
By Denis MacShane /Friday, July 30th, 2010“Clegg will not win re-election in Sheffield unless he stands as a Conservative Liberal without a Tory against him”
Legal threat to council’s pay rises
By René Lavanchy /Friday, July 30th, 2010The GMB has thrown down a legal challenge to a Tory-led London council’s controversial decision to give its leaders an inflation-busting pay rise. Barnet Council voted this month to increase its leader’s pay by over £5,000 and allowances for cabinet members by 38 per cent. Council workers across England and Wales were refused a pay [...]
Growth will be limited, thanks to Government cuts and poor trade figures
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, July 30th, 2010Government spending cuts and disappointing net trade figures will limit economic growth in Britain to 1.3 per cent this year, despite the surprise spring surge in the second three months of this year, according to the independent National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). In the first comprehensive independent economic analysis since George Osborne’s [...]
Right-wing charity shut down for political activity rule breach
By David Hencke /Friday, July 30th, 2010Charity commission scotches Atlantic Bridge
Brothers in arms: David and Ed Miliband are neck and neck at half-way point
By Chris McLaughlin & Keith Richmond /Friday, July 30th, 2010The Miliband brothers are the Labour leadership front runners with the other candidates trailing in their wake
Alternatives, lies and lights out
By Tribune Editorial /Friday, July 30th, 2010One swallow doth not a summer make. Thus, one set of good news does not necessarily point to the end of the economic crisis.