Bill Jamieson: Weight of trouble for 'Team GB'
                   
scotsman.com
23-Aug-2008
        

THE best measure of the ordeal now in store for the Government came in a brutal set of figures last week. Not the latest signs of slowdown in the housing market, or the bleak Chambers of Commerce survey warning of unemployment climbing to two million, or even the figures showing economic growth has now come to a standstill after 62 quarters of expansion, though all of these will add to the sense of helpless... [read full story]                    

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