Recent articles by Richard Ehrman

Standard & Poor warning just makes Friday more critical

Tue 6 Dec, AT 07:33 Richard Ehrman

If the revamped eurozone turns out to be a German stitch-up, it is highly likely to end in tears

Richard Ehrman

The Tory re-election strategy is not going according to plan

Fri 2 Dec, AT 07:31 Richard Ehrman

Plan A was meant to allow for one or two generous budgets before 2015 – not just more of the same

Mortgage plan is straight from the Gordon Brown songbook

Tue 22 Nov, AT 07:42 Richard Ehrman

It's not just the euro. Cameron and Osborne are well behind where they need to be on economic reform

The threat Cameron faces from imperious Germany

Tue 15 Nov, AT 07:54 Richard Ehrman

Britain will be faced with a choice between being pushed further out of Europe or sucked deeper in

Richard Ehrman

How to eject the Greeks from the eurozone, gracefully

Mon 7 Nov, AT 07:56 Richard Ehrman

The ECB needs to act like a lender of last resort and buy the departing country's outstanding bonds

Welcome baby number seven billion – we're still here

Mon 31 Oct, AT 06:01 Richard Ehrman

Doomsayers got it wrong on population – here's hoping climate change won't be a catastrophe either

Richard Ehrman

Tory rebels have done David Cameron real damage

Tue 25 Oct, AT 14:08 Richard Ehrman

The vote was not just about Europe – it was about whether Tories still trust their leader

David Cameron

Fox affair exposes David Cameron’s weak spots

Mon 17 Oct, AT 08:30 Richard Ehrman

It’s time this rather distant and grand PM made his backbenchers feel more loved

Bank of England

The secret advantage of more quantitative easing

Tue 11 Oct, AT 10:09 Richard Ehrman

Monetising the deficit is frowned on by many, but it could help us out of this hole

George Osborne

Here comes Plan B – but will the Lib Dems buy it?

Tue 4 Oct, AT 09:57 Richard Ehrman

Osborne knows that supply side reform is now needed – but it’s an ugly phrase in coalition circles

Labour party Ed Miliband Ed Balls

Balls is lost in the past but Miliband is thinking ahead

Tue 27 Sep, AT 09:49 Richard Ehrman

Miliband has grasped the big question - how can capitalism be made to work for the majority again?

Greece protests

Greece needs years not months to sort itself out

Wed 21 Sep, AT 11:43 Richard Ehrman

Doctors unpaid, schools without books, taxes uncollected – Greece is in chaos

Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy

Euro crisis: Germany evades its responsibilities

Mon 12 Sep, AT 09:54 Richard Ehrman

Germany knew other countries were fiddling their books but chose to turn a blind eye

new houses

Three suggestions to solve the housing shortage

Tue 6 Sep, AT 12:47 Richard Ehrman

The MoD is sitting on redundant military bases ripe for house building

Street sweeper in London

How the British became addicted to immigration

Tue 30 Aug, AT 09:23 Richard Ehrman

With the issue no longer about race but numbers, kicking this addiction will be hard

Warren Buffett

The Buffett question: how should we tax the rich?

Tue 23 Aug, AT 10:15 Richard Ehrman

Should George Osborne give a tax break to entrepreneurs or the middle classes?

Bill Bratton

Let’s put an end to the chief constables’ closed shop

Wed 17 Aug, AT 09:06 Richard Ehrman

Top cops have blown away Bratton – but the issue of elected police commissioners won’t be so easy

Tea Party protest

Brinkmanship: it all goes back to the banking crisis

Tue 2 Aug, AT 09:00 Richard Ehrman

The deep divisions exposed by the rescue of the banks have led us to this cliff edge

George Osborne

Economy slows to 0.2%: deadly stagflation is here

Tue 26 Jul, AT 11:00 Richard Ehrman

Now the coalition must stop bickering about how to produce urgently needed growth

rupert murdoch

Murdoch’s comeuppance will have downsides too

Tue 12 Jul, AT 11:28 Richard Ehrman

Tories see Murdoch papers as useful counterweight to the left-wing BBC and Guardian

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