Topic: Exchequer George Osborne

Another phone hacking victim, another blow to Murdoch's power in Britain

Revelations of another phone hacking victim – the mother of 8-year-old murder victim Sarah Payne – adds to a culture war that pits Rupert Murdoch’s profit-driven ethos against Britain's establishment press.
07/29/2011 01:39 pm

What Britain's cuts mean for its place in the world

Britain made deep cuts to social services, government jobs, welfare benefits, and defense spending in order to reduce a mounting deficit. The cuts could dramatically reshape British society.
10/28/2010 03:28 pm

The Circle Bastiat UK follows Sweden’s austere lead

The UK has cut billions of pounds of welfare spending in an attempt to balance their budget. Sweden similarly chopped their welfare state in 1992. How did it work for them?
10/22/2010 04:00 pm

Britain's budget cuts outline radical path toward smaller government

Britain announced deep and wide-ranging budget cuts today that aim to eliminate its $245 billion deficit over the next five years.
10/20/2010 02:13 pm

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Thatcher II? Britain poised to slash budgets, government's role.

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne told parliament today that the new government will be seeking broad public input on an 'emergency budget' designed to slash the deficit and modeled on a crash program used by Canada in the 1990s.
06/08/2010 06:13 pm