Politics Summary: Monday, February 15th

The Conservatives week has started badly. The Guardian highlights another “butter-fingered operation of the calculator” as the Tories get their sums wrong again. A Conservative party attack document, ‘Labour’s Two Nations’, claimed – three times – that women under 18test

The climate movement at a crossroads

This is a defining moment for the British climate movement. Copenhagen has proved a watershed: its failures have thrown campaigners into a state of profound self-doubt and re-evaluation. Combined with the revival of climate scepticism – the fallout from Climategatetest

Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward

The Week in Politics • David Cameron’s mask finally slipped this week with a deluge of stories – no doubt to the delight of Thatcher and the blue rinse – indicating the nasty party were well and truly back: un-green,test

The Week Outside Westminster

Scotland • The former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public, Sir Alistair Graham, said reports the SNP were auctioning lunches with Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon at Holyrood looked like “a clear breach of the rules”. The firsttest

The boom and bust rap

This has been around for a couple of weeks so not exactly new but, certainly for the wonky among you, absolutely hilarious. Watch the EconStories Hayek vs Keynes rap anthem: Hat-tip: Political Scrapbook Left Foot Forward doesn’t have the backingtest