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• Brown's £140m plan for 35,000 apprenticeships

  8 Jan 2009:

  Ministers fear return to youth unemployment of the 1980s as recession makes companies cut recruitment

• Beyond retail therapy

  8 Jan 2009:

  Editorial: The health and happiness of our society depends on the levelling of wealth and incomes

• A year of reckoning

  8 Jan 2009:

  Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt: Brown's response to the slump has vindicated our claim as Conservatives to be the progressive party

• Ukip reckons Darling is about to borrow one of its tax policies

  7 Jan 2009:

  UK Independence party thinks the chancellor is on the verge of rasing the income tax threshold

• Brown launches plan to fund 35,000 apprenticeships on tour of regions

  7 Jan 2009:

  Brown announces £140m expansion of apprenticeships during three-day trip

• Darling admits recession deeper than government expected

  7 Jan 2009: Chancellor says he may be forced to rip up his previous economic forecasts

• Cameron's plans are a cut above

  6 Jan 2009:

  Matthew Elliott: There is plenty of scope for the Tory leader to make his proposed £5bn cut in public spending without affecting frontline services

• Guardian Weekly: Bloodshed in Gaza

  Audio (25min 08sec), 6 Jan 2009:

  Middle east editor Ian Black analyses the conflict in Gaza. Plus, Daniel Nasaw reports on Minnesota's new senator, Al Franken. And Deborah Hargreaves on the economic propects for 2009

• David Cameron calls for league tables to improve UK prisons

  6 Jan 2009: Tory leader leads attack on prison service and courts new ideas to rebuild economy

• It might sound appealing, but this is populist poison

  6 Jan 2009:

  Polly Toynbee: The Conservative plan for retrenchment and thrift is economically illiterate

• Sir Alan Walters

  6 Jan 2009:

  Obituary: Economic adviser to Margaret Thatcher, he opposed Britain joining the ERM

• Cameron offers savings tax cut plus clamp on public spending

  6 Jan 2009:

  Tory culture of government thrift contrasted with 'catastrophic legacy' of Labour economy built on debt

• The spivs are back, but on a short leash

  6 Jan 2009:

  Nils Pratley: The decision to lift the ban on short selling will be greeted with dismay. But it is the right decision

• Give and take

  6 Jan 2009:

  Editorial: Community schemes bankrolled by big City firms are already facing the axe

• Green shoots

  6 Jan 2009:

  Editorial: All political parties need to think much more broadly and radically if this really is going to be a green recession

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