It’s shameful when I did not notice a letter from the Green New Deal group in the Guardian this morning: Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson are right, the UK should
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The time for austerity has gone
German electors rejected austerity this weekend. They were right to join the French and Greeks in doing so. As Jonathan Portes of the National Institute
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Now Cameron’s getting really lame – of course the name The Green Deal was not his idea
The Guardian reports this morning that: The green deal, the government’s big policy initiative for fighting climate change, is supposed to plug one of Britain’s biggest
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Remunicipalisation – Putting water back into public hands
I came across this today: Cities worldwide are taking back control of their collective water systems. The outcome of two years of research, this new
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Labour must look to the regions
From the letters page of the Guardian today: Your editorial (Economics lessons from Bradford West, 2 April) correctly pinpointed the need for “smart state intervention”
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Green today’s quantitative easing
Economist Professor Richard Werner, who proposed the term “quantitative easing” in Japan in the 1990s, and Caroline Lucas MP, of the Green New Deal Group, are calling
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Caroline Lucas, the Green New Deal and green quantitative easing
This letter is in the Guardian this morning from Caroline Lucas: With the global climate crisis growing ever more urgent, the sharp rise in the
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Strangely conflicted
I am in one sense I am pleased the UK is holding out against some aspects of the EU deal proposed by Merkel and Sarkozy.
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There is an essential truth in this
Larry Summers has said in the FT this morning: The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence,
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