Politics: Business
Lead Feature
Flint: Property boom unsustainable
Housing Minister Caroline Flint concedes the booming housing market that Britain has enjoyed for more than a decade is "unsustainable"
In business
Duncan v Oborne?
- By Martin Bright
- 30 June
Will Alan Duncan square up to Peter Oborne after the Daily Mail columnist wrote about his business links...
Is this the return of stagflation?
- By Alex Brummer
- 26 June
As growth slows and prices surge, the economic outlook has echoes of the disastrous 1970s . . . but, for the moment, things aren't quite that bad
Doing the job right
- By Alyssa McDonald
- 26 June
Bob Barrett's Beef Kitchen amazed the judges at the New Statesman/ Edge Upstarts Awards for social enterprise
Right to strike over low pay
- By Dave Prentis
- 25 June
Since 2004 local government workers have had below inflation awards. Their vote in favour of strike action shows you can push people only so far, argues Unison boss Dave Prentis. Gordon Brown should sit up and take notice
Hardcore Sporn
- By Iain Simons
- 23 June
In his first posting on newstatesman.com's CultureTech Iain Simons gets red in the face over some Hardcore Sporn
Sending money home
- By Enrique Mendizabal
- 20 June
The vital role of workers who send their money home to Latin America and how they can create a "brain gain" effect
Feature
Workers of the world unite
The world's first truly international trades union looks set to be unveiled with a membership of more than 3m as the labour movement goes global
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Sir Alan, the dodgy tapes and the bum shot
- By Daisy McAndrew
- 19 June 2008
When rights go very wrong
- By Alex Brummer
- 12 June 2008
After the oil crunch?
- By Mark Lynas
- 12 June 2008
Halal goes global
- By Carla Power
- 05 June 2008
Secretive saviours
- By Mark Seddon
- 05 June 2008
Crash: The housing crisis is just beginning
- By Iain Macwhirter
- 05 June 2008
The day we knew would come
- 05 June 2008
