The following press release has been issued by Caroline Lucas MP and the Green New Deal group this morning. There are more details on green quantitative
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Now’s the time for green quantitative easing to boost the UK’s infrastructure
The following letter is in the Guardian this morning. I am one of its authors. A fuller statement is available here: Simon Jenkins is right
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Out tonight: the Green New Deal response to Labour
This letter has just been published in the Guardian. I had a little input: It was heartening to hear Ed Miliband say in his speech
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There isn’t an army of low skilled workers in the UK. There are lots of underemployed skilled people
Larry Elliott has a piece on the UK’s productivity in the Guardian this morning and whilst Larry and I may both be members of the
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Are we getting a good return on the investment in Mark Carney?
According to the Guardian Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England thinks that the ‘UK housing market has ‘deep, deep structural problems’, and
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Local authority bonds could deliver the Green New Deal
As some will know, I have been advocating the use of local government bonds to fund local Green New Deals for as long as I
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The IPCC says we can afford to tackle climate change: now is the time for a Green New Deal
The Guardian notes today: Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards, according to a landmark UN report published on Sunday. It concludes
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Green quantitative easing is possible: Mark Carney has made that clear
This was reported in the FT a couple of days ago, but I missed it due to other issues: The Bank of England could buy
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Saving for the NHS
On Monday night I watched Jeremy Paxman’s programme on the First World War. One of the social dimensions of the war that he discussed was
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