Eight questions about the autumn statement answered
Ahead of the chancellor’s Autumn Statement tomorrow, here are eight questions about the speech, the economy and the politics answered.
Paul Mason has left Channel 4 News.
Ahead of the chancellor’s Autumn Statement tomorrow, here are eight questions about the speech, the economy and the politics answered.
Lukasz Szlek, who lives in Southampton, an area which has seen a big influx of EU immigrants, tells Economics Editor Paul Mason that David Cameron is to blame for anti-Polish rhetoric in the country.
Just when the media were starting to get all breathless about the “recovery” in real wages, the government’s gone and released data showing how truly and devastatingly low pay has become.
Chicken chow mein, online chat-rooms and traders rigging rates: the latest banking scam explained by Economics Editor Paul Mason.
Five banks are fined after it emerges they manipulated foreign exchange rates for nearly six years. The Bank of England has also been dragged into the scandal, amid claims officials knew about it.
Great Yarmouth, flooded with holidaymakers in the half-term sun, is mainly white working class and increasingly Ukip. This is one of the UK Independence Party’s target seats.
The longer this goes on without answers, the resilience of hundreds of thousands of Tesco employees, who thought they were working for an iconic, stable British institution, will be tested.
When I speak to Tesco’s boss I will ask him… oh, wait. We’re not getting an interview. But he has some explaining to do about the company’s 92 per cent pre-tax profit slump.
After outgoing Tesco Chairman Sir Richard Broadbent blanks questions on his leadership, new CEO Dave Lewis does agree to talk to Channel 4 News’ Economics Editor Paul Mason about the company’s woes.
Benefit claimants in areas piloting the new universal credit seem to like it. But with its roll-out taking much longer than anticipated, are government hopes for billions of pounds of savings misplaced?
In this German town of deserted factories, there is an important lesson in why the government wants balanced books more than growth.
Laura Poitras’ movie CITZENFOUR captures the man at the centre of today’s Watergate moment – Edward Snowden – in a compelling story of whistleblowing and NSA snooping.
Germany’s economy is spluttering, deflation is growing and the UK’s FTSE is going nowhere – did the post-Lehman crisis ever go away?
We, the mainly white descendants of the early cotton factory workforce, were playing the music of people descended from the slaves who had picked the cotton 150 years before.
Germany suffers its sharpest drop in industrial production since 2009 – boosting fears that the EU’s economic powerhouse could head for recession and trigger a crisis across Europe.