I have long argued for a Green New Deal. So, of course, I welcome this news in The Guardian yesterday: The UK needs to invest
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Only government can fund the Green New Deal: the deficit obsession has to end
I share this post from the Tax Justice Network blog with permission. There are small points where I would put this emphasis in a different
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Investment in sustainable energy is collapsing just when we most need a Green New Deal
I thought I had found the most depressing news story of the day already, and then I found this, in The Guardian:The Guardian: Investment in
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Time to take the COP 26 talks away from the UK if we are unable to deliver them
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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Consumption will not provide the way out of this economic crisis – but we could save for the planet instead
I predicted, very early on in this crisis, that consumers would react to it the way that consumers always do in situations such as this,
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The government is planning to bail out the most polluting businesses: now is the time for conditions to be attached
The FT has reported that: Rishi Sunak has authorised a bailout plan named “Project Birch” to save strategically important companies, as pressure mounts on the
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Will the great unemployment begin in August?
The Guardian has noted this afternoon that: Businesses will have to pay at least a fifth of the wages of furloughed employees from August, it
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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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We are facing the most almighty unemployment and only a Green New Deal can solve it
The FT reported yesterday that one in five UK employers plan to make redundancies in the next three months. The TUC is warning of 6
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