Gary Gibbon
Energy battles resume
All too soon, Ed Miliband’s wheeze on energy bills has sent the Lib Dems and the Tories into conflict with each other again.
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Economy grows at fastest rate for three years
Britain’s economy grows by 0.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2013, with all the main sectors showing a rise in activity.
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Cyprus: ‘We are the generation of 500 euros’
Just over six months on from the Cyprus bailout, what’s the situation like for people on the ground? Grim, says our newest “Austerity Kid”, 24-year old Maria Christodoulou.
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Ireland breathes ‘sigh of relief’ after 2014 budget
Ireland’s seventh austerity budget set out 2.5bn euros of cuts and taxes, including cuts to benefits for under 25s. But our Austerity Kid in Dublin says many are just relieved it wasn’t worse.
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Lampedusa: redefining Italy’s conscience on immigration
As Italy declares a state of emergency following the Lampedusa disaster, Channel 4 News asks if social attitudes towards immigration are changing.
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Gary Gibbon
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Benefit tourism: is it a myth?
Downing Street defends its crackdown on “benefit tourism” despite new evidence from the European Commission that it is “neither widespread nor systematic” in the UK. Is it merely a myth?
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Gove adviser: School failure could cause ‘showers of blood’
It is one of several radical claims about education in an essay by the education secretary’s adviser Dominic Cummings, published last night. Here are the rest.
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Michael Crick
Cameron challenges Heath for stability
In terms of longevity, the ministers around the coalition cabinet table rival the record of the Heath government of the early 1970s.
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Life in chains: the plight of Somalia’s mentally ill
Living in a tin shack by the roadside, Abdullahi is isolated, barely washed and poorly fed. For the last 17 years he has been chained up by his own family in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
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Lenders unveil mortgage offers under help to buy
Britain’s state-backed banks are braced for a flood of interest in the help to buy scheme. But MPs warn the Bank of England should have more powers to intervene.
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Birmingham children’s chief ‘cannot guarantee’ child safety
Birmingham children’s services missed opportunities to save three-year-old Keanu Williams in the weeks before he was beaten to death by his mother. A report describes how the child became “invisible”.
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David Cameron pledges ‘land of opportunity for all’
David Cameron tells the Conservative conference he wants to create a society built on hard work, tax cuts and enterprise, in which everyone has “the chance to make it”.
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Bank stress tests: how they could affect your finances
Annual stress tests for banks are meant to ensure they remain financially secure, but tougher conditions could make it harder to get a loan, writes Economics Producer Neil MacDonald.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory conference: workfare and pacts
George Osborne is selling a massive extension of workfare as a way to “help (the long-term unemployed) into work.” But is that what the projects tried so far prove and do they save the state money?
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George Osborne: ‘work for dole’ scheme is ‘compassionate’
George Osborne defends his plans to make the long-term unemployed “work for the dole”, saying it will help people get off benefits.
