Simon Jenkins is a perplexing, and confused man. He’s written a piece for the Guardian in which he strongly criticises, on Keynesian grounds, the rise
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As the Guardian notes: The government’s radical programme to slash spending will see the first rise in absolute child poverty for 15 years, with almost
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Yes, I know all that I and others say about taking figures in isolation and extrapolating from them. But new car sales down 11.5% on
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The Green New Deal for Northern Ireland has been formally launched. This is  direct spin off from the group of which I am a member.
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FT Alphaville has published an exchange between UBS economists on the need for a central infrastructure bank at this time of economic crisis. Extraordinarily the
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It’s already clear what the Tory defence of the cuts to be announced on Wednesday will be. The Tory think tank, the Centre for Policy
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Good news today, reported by the Guardian: Plans to fit power generating solar panels to council-owned properties in Birmingham will be pushed forward this week
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Chris Huhne, LibDem climate change minister announced yesterday: A plan to create almost 250,000 jobs in green industries, including nuclear power and home insulation, will
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There’s a blog by an anonymous civil servant running on the Observer site. I believe it is genuine. Today’s headline is reproduced above. The sib
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