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Now we are facing our moment of truth - Brown

• PM to demand European bank bail-out • 'Stakes could not be higher for jobs' Gordon Brown will try to broker a Europe-wide bail-out of banks today modelled on Britain's £500bn intervention, warning that the 'stakes could not...

Tim Lott: Don't blame all this on the greedy City types

There is something vaguely unreal about the unfolding global crisis. We are at ground level watching mighty towers fall at a distance. We know that the debris is spreading and the dust may smother us. But we do not feel it –...

Alan Watkins: Brown's control of the crisis is illusory

In Anthony Crosland's last phase, at the Environment and then in his short spell as Foreign Secretary before his early death in 1977, his relations with Iceland had been troubled. The cause was the Cod War. HMG did not send a...

Two million Britons on the dole by Christmas

Downing Street's desperate efforts to shore up the economy in the face of the escalating credit crash may not be enough to rescue the transport, building and car industries, as a tidal wave of job losses are predicted in the...

John Rentoul: The week Gordon met his ERM

It has been a good week for David Cameron. In fact, it may be that we will look back and say that last week was when he won the general election. This is not how Labour MPs saw it, in their battle delirium. Gordon Brown was...

The IoS Green List: Britain's top 100 environmentalists

Britain's most successful transport campaigner has come top of the first comprehensive list of the country's most effective greens, compiled by The Independent on Sunday. The runners-up are also unconventional choices, not...

Vincent Cable interview - Always a step ahead of the rest

Published Date: 12 October 2008 BETWEEN becoming the most colourful Liberal Democrat for decades and many people's voice of reason on how to sort out the mess the big banks have got themselves into, Vincent Cable has found time...

Apprentice legend Sir Alan Sugar on who's to blame for the credit crunch and how to stop it...

A few weeks ago my 13-year-old grandson asked me: “What’s all this stocks and shares stuff about?” None of us feel sorry for these people, but we start to wonder what damage they may have caused in the past years, and how that...

Tory treasurer's firm advised councils hit by Iceland collapse

A company headed by Conservative Party treasurer Michael Spencer has been giving financial advice to public authorities which lost tens of millions of pounds in the Iceland banking collapse. Butlers, a consultancy with about...

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The crisis turns into a matter of life and death

Dead are going unburied - but much worse may lie ahead The credit crisis is starting to affect all aspects of life and even death. Bodies are going unburied for the first time since the chaotic winter of 1978-79 - but this time...