The Guardian has the most depressing news story of the day: Vital international climate talks due to be hosted by the UK are expected to
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Climate, economic and tax justice are the same fight
Very shortly before the coronavirus pandemic really broke the Tax Justice Network published the first of a two-part series of articles on the relationship between
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Grant Shapps: a minister without any sense of responsibility
The Guardian has noted that: The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, promised EasyJet that green taxes would not be levied on airlines six months before the company
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Question of the day: should we bail out companies that use tax havens?
As was noted in some media yesterday: Denmark and Poland are refusing to let companies registered in offshore tax havens access financial aid from their coronavirus bailout packages. The
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A Dutch manifesto for the After Coronavirus era
Andrew Dickie drew my attention to this Dutch manifesto for the After Coronavirus era: This concise manifesto, signed by 170 academics working in the Netherlands
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If people could do the unthinkable to their economies to slow a pandemic, they could do the same to arrest catastrophic climate change
The FT features an interview with President Macron of France this morning. They note him saying: There is a realisation, Mr Macron says, that if
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Bailouts should be subject to conditions, and most especially so in the case of bigger businesses
The FT has noted that: Muriel Pénicaud, the French labour minister, has personally called the bosses of big French companies to persuade some of them
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Ten EU countries say the Green New Deal is part of the recovery from coronavirus plan
I was delighted to read a joint article by ministers from ten EU countries calling for the Green New Deal to be part of the
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The need to rid ourselves of neoliberal thinking
My thoughts on Easter Sunday received the inevitable backlash yesterday, including the suggestion that I was politicising Easter from someone who claimed to be a
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