Recession looms, unemployment touches a 17-year high. But 101 Tory MPs want David Cameron to shackle the UK’s wind industry, which now employs over 10,000 people. Their call will feed the predominant anti-renewables line in some media.

Economic growth in country could drop by half this year in the event of a sharp recession in Europe, the IMF predicted on Monday in

It's all about 'standing up'. If employees are late to this meeting, often called a "daily scrum," they sometimes must sing a song like "I'm a Little Teapot," do a lap around the office building or pay a small fine,...

George Osborne should consider emergency tax cuts in the Budget as Britain is "certain" to be plunged back into recession this year, an influential forecaster warns.

Belgium became the first eurozone country formally to fall into recession in the second half of last year, data showed on Wednesday, paving the way for what is expected to be a tough contraction for the bloc as a whole in 2012. More »

We are lucky it is a leap year.  It gives us an extra day to save the country. Here are two graphs, both from the Financial Times.  This one shows the UK’s Nominal Gross Domestic Product.  It shows the development of the double dip recession we are facing. The figures are up to October 2011. 

To get where he is today, Sir Fred had to run a bank into the ground, help trigger a recession and fight like a polecat to keep his pension

Ed Miliband has argued that breaking up the UK will undermine efforts to tackle the recession and poverty by creating artificial competition between England and Scotland.

The Left is retreating around the world. The Great Recession has produced a landscape so favourable for right-wing parties, their opponents can only feel sorry for themselves as they watch support drain away from them. At least, so goes the popular narrative. But the last 12 months don’t bear out the argument that the Left is on a losing streak.

It is now four years since recession hit the UK. It took just over three years for GDP to return to pre-recession levels in the much milder downturns of the ‘70s and the ‘90s. Even after the Great Depression of the 30s, the economy had fully recovered by this point. By contrast, economic output in 2011 Q4 was still 3.8 per cent down on 2008 Q1. And it’s going to take a while long...