This video has just been published by Jeremy Leggett of Solar Century and the Green New Deal group. He has been at the forefront of renewable
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The Green New Deal and automation
From the Guardian this morning: John Harris is right to say the left has articulated no comprehensive answer to the existing and future threats posed
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Bye, bye PFI?
From today’s Private Eye: Tax havens on their way one day. PFI the next? What will tomorrow bring? I’ve only been on both cases for fifteen
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People can’t understand why they can’t have what nation states could deliver half a century ago
Larry Elliott has an article I want to signpost in the Guardian this morning. It’s worth reading in full, and not just because he’s another
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Scotland gets a National Investment Bank
Good news for Scotland yesterday. As Common Space noted: Today Scottish Government published its implementation plan for a Scottish National Investment Bank. This proposal –
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After fifteen years of my saying PFI does not work the NAO finally agrees. Why has it taken so long?
As the Guardian reports this morning: Taxpayers will be forced to hand over nearly £200bn to contractors under private finance deals for at least 25
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The fundamental flaw in PFI can be overcome by People’s QE
The supposed advantage of PFI is that the risk of contracts going wrong is passed from the government to a contractor. There are two flaws
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It’s time to borrow Mr Hammond
The FT would seem to have an important message in its pages for the UK Chancellor this morning. As they note: The UK bond market
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Support for the Green New Deal from the Labour Party
Jack James has advised me that this motion was passed at the Labour Party North West Regional Conference last weekend: Conference welcomes the manifesto promise
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