The Green New Deal group (of which I am a member) is in the Guardian this morning as a result of a letter from our convenor,
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Take deflation seriously: it has the power to derail almost any economy
At the age of 55 I have never lived in an economy facing deflation. I have only known inflation. And I have only known the
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Is Miliband delivering the Green New Deal? It’s not clear as yet
According to the Guardian – and I am sure the sources are impeccable – Ed Miliband will suggest Labour will build 200,000 houses a year
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One I am looking forward to reading
This is out in the next few days, from my Green New Deal colleague Jeremy Leggett: The blurb on the back says: A review will
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Do you want it warm today and fried tomorrow? The nuclear debate
From this morning’s letters page in the Guardian: There are far cheaper, safer, quicker, more efficient ways of addressing the climate challenge than pursuing nuclear
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Plan for well paid green jobs in every UK constituency
My Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines had the following blog on the TUC Touchstone blog yesterday, and I share it here because of the emphasis
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The power of the bond markets is just bluff – which is why debt could be used to fund the Green New Deal
In 2010 George Osborne led the UK into solely politically motivated austerity and government cuts using the first of his political bogeymen – the power
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What is the Green New Deal?
People have been asking me what the Green New Deal is. ANdrew Simms wrote the following summary. The Green New Deal is: 1. A massive
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If the solution is not a Green New Deal then what is it? Who else has a coherent alternative narrative?
Larry Elliott asks a a key question in the Guardian this morning: Are we content with recovery requiring households to get deeper into debt? As
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