Matt Frei
Newt, Rick and Jon….you can’t have it both ways
Why the Republicans are fighting over who’s the biggest anti-capitalist of them all, Channel 4 News Washington Correspondent Matt Frei blogs.
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FactCheck Q&A: How many migrants are on the dole?
“Some of the 371,000 might have made substantial contributions to the exchequer through tax and National Insurance deductions for many years, and only claimed benefits for a short time.”
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Christmas shopping gives high street sales a lift
With retail sales rising in the run-up to Christmas, Channel 4 News looks at the high street victims of the economic downturn.
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370,000 migrants on benefits
Over 370,000 migrants who came to Britain to work, study or visit, are now claiming work-related benefits, new government figures show. Channel 4 News Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long reports.
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Tunisia celebrates one year since Ben Ali
Tunisia is celebrating the first anniversary of the fall of Ben Ali, which sparked the Arab Spring and spread to the entire region. But with discontent still rife, where does Tunisia find itself now?
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Top firms pledge fairer work experience schemes
Some of the UK’s biggest companies join the campaign to promote fairer work experience opportunities, as Cathy Newman takes two interns to meet Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
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Matt Frei
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HS2: What’s in it for you?
The government has given the HS2 project the green light – but campaigners say the battle for high speed rail in the UK is not yet won. Channel 4 News looks at the arguments for and against.
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Tunisian man dies after setting himself on fire
A Tunisian protester who set himself on fire to protest against high unemployment has died in hospital. It comes almost exactly a year after a fruit seller’s self-immolation sparked the Arab Spring.
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Merkel and Sarkozy meet over jobs and growth plans
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are meeting to discuss ways to boost growth in eurozone states struggling to overcome the sovereign debt crisis and rising unemployment.
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Jamaica to become a republic?
No sooner was she sworn in – than Jamaica’s new prime minister declared she wants to drop Her Majesty the Queen as head of state and cut all colonial-era links.
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Thatcher told: leave Liverpool to ‘managed decline’
National Archive papers released today show Margaret Thatcher was advised not to invest in Liverpool after riots in 1981 – as well as proving the Iron Lady’s tight grip on her home improvement budget.
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Is the younger generation getting a raw deal?
With austerity looming, pension strikes back on the agenda and youth unemployment on the rise, is intergenerational conflict inevitable? Channel 4 News hears from both sides.
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‘Society must not ignore the old’
Amid growing fears of intergenerational conflict in difficult economic times, Saga’s Ros Altmann writes for Channel 4 News on why the needs, rights and talents of our ageing population matter.
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Mohamed Bouazizi changed the world in 2011
As Channel 4 News asks you who you think changed the world the most in 2011, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman makes the case for a young fruit and vegetable seller from Tunisia.
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The brands gone bad in 2011
As the British high street emerges from 2011 a shadow of its former self, Channel 4 News looks at the brands gone bust, or hanging on by a thread, at the end of a difficult year.
