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With the outlook for output growth deteriorating, it is hard to see how the UK can avoid falls in employment in the third and fourth quarters of this year – a jobs recession.From Andrew Sissons, a researcher at The Work Foundation.Growth of 0.5% is an unexpected piece of goods news for the economy. It is particularly encouraging to see growth in business services, which will be key to the recovery, although growth in the production sector of the economy remains relatively slow.But this good news does not disguise a labour market which has been in freefall over recent months,
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? David Goodhart at Prospect says the Bradford West result could change British politics.The Bradford West upset is probably most accurately described as the result of a minor civil war within the Pakistani elite in the town which then led to the younger generation revolting against its elders. And a successful by-election campaign that loudly highlights the plight of the Palestinians is not likely to tell us much about, or have much impact on,
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But he knew what he believed in.Q: But your problem is that people are reluctant to see you as leader. Glasman said in the New Statesman article that you had "flickered rather than shone".Miliband says Humphrys should not declare the result of the race before it is over. It has more than half its way to run. He thinks that when its over,
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— Tentacle Sixteen (@latentexistence) October 8, 2012#mycurtainsareclosedbecause I'd have to crawl over the bed to get to them, and I can't. I'm disabled. #cpc12— Margo Milne (@MargoJMilne) October 8, 2012#mycurtainsareclosedbecause I get up for work before sunrise and return after, plus I've broken the pulley on the blind.— Mark (@peel_acres) October 8, 2012Now it's over to you - tell us why you keep your curtains closed...Five things that were left out of David Cameron's speech1. The police. With Andrew Mitchell's alleged "pleb" rant at Downing Street police officers still rather too fresh in everyone's minds, and police reforms,
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? Hunt said the new revelations that had come out about the News of the World were "stomach churning".You would not be human if you were not totally appalled with some of the revelations that have come to light. They are just stomach churning. ? He said he wanted to give the public confidence that he was dealing with the issue "objectively,
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