Inflation
The Spectator’s notes
One of the oddest features of the cabinet majority for staying in the EU is that almost no one in…
Through the roof
When David Cameron said this week that he is worried his children would not be able to afford to buy…
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Home Andrew Burnham described calls from Yvette Cooper, a rival candidate for the Labour leadership, for him to withdraw from…
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Home The government postponed a Commons vote on relaxing the Hunting Act in England and Wales after the Scottish National…
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Home Talha Asmal, aged 17, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, died in a suicide bomb attack on forces near an oil…
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Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…
Katmandu Notebook
After the first earthquake we were told that the chance of another one was 200 to 1. A fortnight later,…
Portrait of the week
Home Launching the Conservative party manifesto, David Cameron, the party leader, told voters he wanted to ‘turn the good news…
Demons of deflation
The new fear haunting Europe
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Home Checks began at British airports for passengers who might have come from west Africa with Ebola fever (even though…
Portrait of the Week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, writing of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, said: ‘If we do not act…
Barometer
Tough at the top The clocks on Big Ben were cleaned by abseiling window-cleaners. Some other big cleaning/painting jobs: —…
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Home In a ministerial reshuffle, William Hague, who promised to leave Parliament at the election, was made Leader of the…
