I looked at the pictures of people going shopping yesterday, few of them respecting any form of social distancing, and realised three things. The first
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Are climate NGOs really going to let another crisis go to waste?
A group called The Climate Coalition (about whose work, funding and staff it is remarkably quiet on its own website, I have to say with
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The Office for National Statistics unemployment data is a real exercise in fake news
The award for the most misleading chart of the year surely goes to this, issue by the Office for National Statistics this morning in its
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Funding a green transition is not an issue – my letter with Caroline Lucas in the Guardian
The Guardian published this letter from Caroline Lucas MP and me last night: Your editorial (9 June) rightly calls for the post-coronavirus economy to be
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The stranded asset write downs begin
Since 2008 one of the continuing themes of the Green New Deal Group has been that we have a fossil fuel crisis, one of the
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Rising government debt can increase inequality: governments have to be willing to tackle that head on
The FT is worrying about government debt levels this morning. It published this chart: As it notes: Unprecedented government interventions to offset the economic impact
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How long before ‘fake news libel’ becomes commonplace?
The Guardian reports this morning that: One of the Philippines’ most prominent journalists, Maria Ressa, is facing up to six years in prison after she was
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Spend and tax, not tax and spend
Will Hutton gets that without printing money the crisis facing our economy is off the economic Richter scale. Why can’t others?
Will Hutton is not most left-wingers’ idea of a left-wing economist these days. But in The Observer today he suggests that the programme required to
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