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- Services Producer Price Indices - The Development Of Price Indices for Professional Business Services, Cargo Handling and Storage and Warehousing, Quarter 1 2013
UK National Statistics (Yesterday) - The Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) are primarily a suite of individual price indices that provide information on price change for a limited range of service industries. Each SPPI captures quarterly changes in the price... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Where Does Miliband Stand On The Future Of Capitalism?
Three Score Years & Ten (Yesterday) - In making his speech to Google yesterday and as part of his advocacy of "responsible capitalism", Ed Miliband made the following statement as a means of distancing his views from those of his Marxist father,... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Nursery reforms could cut childcare costs by 28%, DfE calculates
The Guardian - Politics (Yesterday) - New calculations released by Department for Education will boost those seeking to push stalled plans throughThe cost of childcare could be cut by as much as 28% if the government was to go ahead with... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Cable welcomes German research group
Financial Times - Politics £ (Yesterday) - The business secretary hopes opening a branch of the German applied research organisation will help British innovations become viable products... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Peter Mandelson appointed high steward of Hull
- David Cameron has the measure – so far - in the reaction to Woolwich attack | Patrick Wintour
- RMT threatens “wave of industrial action” over pensions and travel perks
Mayor Watch (Yesterday) - The RMT says any attempt to revise the pensions or travel perks of Tube staff would be met by “the biggest wave of industrial action on London Underground in 30 years”. The threat comes after... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Breaking free of London-focused growth
New Economics Foundation (Yesterday) - The graph below is perhaps the most important in British politics. It deserves to be far better known. It is taken directly from an Office for National Statistics publication and it shows, for every country... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Economic Report on Africa 2013: Making the Most of Africa's Commodities
Chatham House (Yesterday) - This event will launch the 2013 joint UNECA and African Union Commission (AUC) economic report on Africa. By focusing on commodity-based industrialization as an engine of growth for Africa, the report argues that African countries... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- On Returning to Italy and Leaving Democratic Civilisation
Angels in Marble (Yesterday) - It's barely worth writing about the installation of dictatorship in Italy; all the usual suspects from the highest to the lowest, all the ususal excuses about emergency and temporary and experts and technicians and Europe. ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Stagnation Charts #6: growth in the service industries
Touchstone blog (Yesterday) - In the latest of our occasional series of [...]... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Social Liberal Forum conference - 2013
Paula Keaveney (Yesterday) - I'm working with colleagues on this year's Social Liberal Forum conference. It's an annual event but this year it's in Manchester rather than in London.It's on 13th July at Friends House in Central Manchester (near... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- It's not just horrible Hodge attacking beneficial businesses
Purple Scorpion (Yesterday) - It's politicians who make the tax laws. If lawmakers don't like the results of the laws they have made, they should persuade government to change the law, not haul successful international companies in for show... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
International Institute for Environment and Development Blog (Yesterday) - Britain and France have just announced they will join an initiative to increase transparency in business deals and expose corruption at the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative bi-annual conference. These moves, along with the new EU... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Chasing debt-fueled investment from London is not worth it for Wales
- Chuka Umunna: Rising star or Labour's Icarus?
Total Politics Articles (Yesterday) - This article is from the June 2013 issue of Total PoliticsJust who is Chuka Umunna? Come to think of it, what’s the proper pronunciation of ‘Chuka Umunna’?“A-moon-ah,” one of his aides explains helpfully. “It’s as... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Did the Bank of England cry wolf?
Robert Peston (Yesterday) - The Bank of England made history over the autumn and earlier this year.Its newly created Financial Policy Committee announced that the big UK banks were short of capital to protect themselves against potential future losses... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
International Institute for Environment and Development (Yesterday) - Britain and France have just announced they will join an initiative to increase transparency in business deals and expose corruption at the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative bi-annual conference. These moves, along with the new EU... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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British National Party (Yesterday) - Dear Sir or Madam:I was both horrified and infuriated by the murder of a British soldier by a pair of Islamic savages today and my heart and condolences go out to all of my beloved... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - Video (Yesterday) - JO SWINSON MPFrom:bisgovukViews:110ratingsTime:01:27More inNews & Politics... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Commission proposes New European Industrial Strategy for Electronics – better targeted support to mobilise €100 billion in new private investments Albion Alliance (Yesterday) - The European Commission today launches a campaign for coordinated public investments in micro- and nano-electronics (such as semiconductors and computer chips), designed to expand Europe’s advanced manufacturing base. Go to Source... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- News story: G8 transparency: UK and France join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Department for International Development (Yesterday) - The United Kingdom and France announce that they will join the global standard ensuring transparency of payments from natural resources.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- UK raises the bar for transparency in the extractive industries
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Yesterday) - The Prime Minister yesterday announced that the UK government intends to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). EITI was set up to help tackle corruption, to improve the way revenues from oil,... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Sarah Wollaston: Doctor Sharp Eyes
George Eaton (Yesterday) - An MP David Cameron should find space for in his magic circle.If David Cameron wanted an MP able to remove any prejudices that voters might have about “the nasty party”, he could not have designed... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Opinion: Some thoughts on the NHS from a recent patient
Liberal Democrat Voice (Yesterday) - I’ve just spent 3 weeks on a trauma ward in a northern hospital after a nasty accident, and coming from an industrial background, here are some thoughts on the NHS and a Lib Dem approach.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›