A bad end to a bad year for François Hollande.

Accounting profit is necessary for publicly traded companies to survive; it's not a sign of extortion.

Pulling the rug out from under students.

The historian isn't so hot when he's looking forwards in time.

Questionnaire "had failed its scientific validation".

Canal running from Pennines to London would transport goods, power and water.

Combining underemployment and unemployment shows the output gap is much bigger than previously estimated.

The solution is more trials, not fewer.

America's on a hiding to nothing, and it's not much better here.

"Just" £15,000 for three days work a month.

What do Japan's "lost decade" and the intractable problem facing bitcoin have in common? Deflation.

As the country gears up for its first ever democratic transition, the secular liberal parties have been threatened into silence.

The ONS figures show stagnation is still the name of the game.

Abenomics is more that just a Japanese story.