I am in Crieff in Perthshire this morning to address the annual conference of COSLA – the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. This is (give
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Edinburgh on Wednesday: see you there?
Next Wednesday, in Cambridge
I am speaking at en event organised by Cambridge Young Greens and the Cambridge Green Party in the Saunders Room, Newnham College, Cambridge CB3 9DF
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Another campaign ask achieved: local authorities are going to issue bonds again
The FT has reported today that: Britain’s local authorities are on the verge of creating a multibillion-pound municipal bond market, amid growing friction between cash-strapped regions
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We need more variations on this theme
I am not a member of a political party. I will not be endorsing any party in the run up to the election. I want
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The need for green quantitative easing: video commentary
This is another video from an interview I did on Monday, this time published by European CEO Again, apologies for the image quality (and my
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The Green New Deal in the FT
The following letter from my friend and Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines is in the FT this morning: Sir, You are correct to say (“No
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It’s Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that can deliver the New Deal we need
I have written rather a lot about the Green New Deal, and the standard response of commentators is “so what, you’re not going to get
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The world knows how to prevent stagnation. But has it got leaders willing to make the choice?
My Green New Deal colleague, Larry Elliott, who also is economics editor of the Guardian (which I suspect he would consider the more important of
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