More than 500,000 official “spying” requests for private communications data such as telephone records were made last year, a report says. Full story here. Half a million, half witted, half educated, half brained snooping technocrats looking at every website you have visited, such as www.mycouncilareabunchofcorruptwankers.org, every recipient of email you have sent, and the telephone n...

Half a million public sector workers are to lose their jobs as a result of the comprehensive review of government spending, official documents have disclosed.

Half a million public sector workers are to lose their jobs as a result of today's comprehensive review of Government spending, official documents have disclosed.

Almost a million people are being forced to work parttime because they cannot get a fulltime job according to official figures that shed light on the hidden cost of the recession.

At least half a million migrant Poles will stay in the UK despite reports they are heading home because of the economic downturn according to a group representing them.

Repossessions were 19,000-odd in the first half of this year, and the house price crash has only just kicked off! The article also says that 155,000 households are seriously in arrears (I have seen the figure of 300,000 recently, not sure where); which is still way short of the number in negative equity (about half a million?). Jingle mail ,jingle mail, jingle all the way ...

A major political headache is how to ensure the recession doesn’t claim another lost generation. Official figures suggest that nearly 1 million people under the age of 25 are already on the dole, with a further 1.5 million being economically inactive. These figures will only get worse. Polly Toynbee thinks that Germany is pulling out of recession because they have the answer: ‘Labour&#...

With The Sun, The Times and The Daily Mail declaring the death of New Labour, it is worth thinking about what a New Labour government PBR would have looked like. For an idea you can look at a PQ that Stephen Byers, someone who has kept and advanced the New Labour faith, asked back in April. Byers wanted to know how much it would cost to lift half a million people, a million and a million half out ...

THE Scottish Government has come under fire for spending more than £300,000 on half a million plastic cups as part of a bizarre bid to encourage responsible drinking.

So, right now there is a recession going on that will be deeper and longer than anything in the 1970s, 80s or 90s, right? And the public finances are in the most dire state since the end of the Second World War and unemployment has passed 2 million whilst worklessness is above 5 million, correct? OK, so answer me this, where is it? Where's what you say? Where is the recession around me? Where are ...