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This post strike will force me to throw in the etiquette towel

23.10.09
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the postal strike (and I am sure there are rights and wrong on both sides), I've already given up on my post. I don't recall it ever being so inefficient in my lifetime. ... more

Ageing workforce may bring end to retirement at 65

13.07.09
Compulsory retirement age could be scrapped under radical plans to allow more people to work beyond 65, the Government announced... more

Bailout of banks to cost taxpayer £1,500,000,000,000

19.02.09
Britain's public debt went "off the Richter scale" as it was confirmed that the Government's bank bailouts had put the nation £1.5 trillion further into the red... more

Osborne: 10 firms a day will fail unless PM acts

09.01.09
Shadow chancellor George Osborne has warned that 10 businesses a day will go under unless the Government gets banks lending again soon... more

Tories hint at tax cuts and halting rise in NI payments

29.12.08
Shadow chancellor George Osborne is talking up tax cuts as the Tories and Labour dig into traditional battle positions for a general election... more

Osborne signals tax cuts to help the lowest paid

20.08.08
Shadow chancellor George Osborne made an attempt to steal Labour's mantle as the "party of the poor" with a signal the Tories would cut taxes for the lowest paid... more

Big spender Gordon's plan to save his skin

06.08.08
The PM is preparing an autumn offensive to restore his standing - at the cost of yet more public debt ... more

PM rejects call for road tax U-turn

10.07.08
Gordon Brown has refused to climb down over new road taxes despite admitting that nine million drivers will be hit... more

PM ally tells Darling to 'sort it out' at Treasury

26.06.08
Fresh questions about the political future of Chancellor Alistair Darling surfaced after a senior Labour MP criticised the Treasury for lacking leadership... more

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