The post that follows started, as a number now do, as a Twitter thread. That’s because their reach is much bigger than this blog. Some
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Providing the answers that are needed
I have been asked by a number of people, from MPs onwards, to prepare answers to the types of questions being commonly asked about the
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So, so wrong Sunak
Rishi Sunak got so much wrong yesterday. He is taking away the extra support those on Universal Credit have enjoyed this kast year. The NHS
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We can have a Green New Deal, Rishi Sunak
My Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines had this letter in the Guardian overnight: Your editorial (23 November) highlights how Rishi Sunak is softening the country up
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The climate is not being destroyed by our emails: it’s being destroyed by companies that want to destroy it for profit
As this morning’s Politico email briefing notes: British officials fighting climate change reckon that if each person in the U.K. sent one fewer email a
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Not so much a Green Industrial Revolution, more a Green Industrial Sop
I suppose I should praise Boris Johnson for announcing what he calls a Green Industrial Revolution’ in the FT this morning, but I find it
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The book I most want to read, right now
Martin Wolf’s list of economics books for 2020 includes not a single title I have read, and rather bizarrely omits the best seller – Stephanie
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The government’s green job promise is completely hollow
The government claimed to launch a plan to deliver 2 million green jobs by 2030 yesterday. It said: The UK government today (12 November 2020)
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Labour’s Green New Deal is a good step in the right direction
Labour has reaffirmed its commitment to a Green New Deal in a document released by Anneliese Dodds and Ed Miliband in their respective roles as
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