Ann Pettifor’s book on the Green New Deal is out today: As the blurb says: The GND has the potential of becoming one of the
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What you think you know about the climate is probably wrong – new UK poll
I thought this post from The Conversation by, Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London was worth sharing: We
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Labour and a financial transaction tax: bring it on
As Larry Elliott has noted in the Guardian, Labour appears to be committing itself to a financial transaction tax for use on the financial services
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Reasonable anger is justified, and Xavier Bettel suffered it
Xavier Bettel is the prime minister of Luxembourg. And yesterday he got angry. Superficially he was angry with Boris Johnson, who had refused to take
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Funding the UK Green New Deal
I have been asked how I would fund the Green New Deal. This is a response I prepared to support some thinking a little while
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Labour members want a Green New Deal: now it’s time for the Party to deliver
As Labour List has noted this morning: Labour conference is set to be dominated by the campaign pushing for the party to adopt a ‘Green
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A repeat of the Turmoil of 1914-1922?
This pst is by Prof Sean Danaher and was on Progressive Pulse last week. It is far too good not to share a little more
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Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton.
I loved this, said by Alexei Sayle on Radio 4 last week: Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused
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Labour needs to sharpen its tax focus
It’s not my job to criticise those seeking to tackle tax avoidance, and I won’t. But I can say when they need to improve their
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