Summer must have arrived. Crazy ideas are in the air. I just finished writing a blog about the wholly inappropriate and regressive tax that the
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I wrote this as a Twitter thread. It became a long one. I offer it here in the way that I write it, with lines
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I am pleased to note that there is now an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Green New Deal: The All Party Parliamentary Group
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If you want to be depressed read this, from The Guardian: Governments are spending vastly more in support of fossil fuels than on low-carbon energy
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I sometimes criticise our government. It’s only appropriate then to note when it is moving in the right direction. This is good news, from The
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My Green New Deal Group colleague, Colin Hines, has this letter in the Guardian this morning: Your editorial (7 July) is right to insist that
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I’ve worked with Geoff Tily, the chief economist at the TUC, over many years, including in his role as an ad hoc members of the
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What to make of the Sunak Summer Statement? There are a number of immediate thoughts. First, never before has so little been held back for
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The FT reports this morning that: Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has opened the door to using its €2.8tn asset purchase scheme
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