Meeting the Millennium Development Goals – can we do it?
The chair of the APPG for Global Action Against Childhood Pneumonia, Jim Dobbin MP, writes about whether we can meet the Millennium Development Goals.
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Labour’s record on child poverty: ambitious, radical and innovative
Labour MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, Gregg McClymont, reviews a new book assessing Labour’s record on eradicating child poverty.
How to mend Britain’s broken economy
A new e-book, entitled ‘Britain’s broken economy – and how to mend it’ is published today; here, contributor Jonathan Rutherford describes the background to it.
Sustainable living: A radical manifesto for 2015
Former environment minister Barry Gardiner outlines his radical manifesto for 2015 on ‘sustainable living’.
Labour’s poll performance is a red herring
Several of my Labour-supporting friends have a spring in their step – level in the polls at last, as revealed by yesterday’s Reuters/Ipsos-MORI poll.
A middle way for economic recovery
The world has moved into a period where there will be a persistent shortfall of demand in the economies of the West compared with what is necessary for full employment.
Using connections to plan the kind of communities residents want to live in
The RSA has today published new research which shows that examining people’s connections provides a powerful way to understand, plan for and, foster the kind of communities that residents want to live in.
Four Cheers for the Government’s failure to stop Illegal Timber!!!
This week the Government are holding a drinks party to congratulate themselves on the new European Union directive on illegal timber. The directive is five years late. It is toothless and it fails to achieve the objective of putting an end to this trade that costs developing countries up to $15 billion each year.
Recycling is a win-win for the environment and the economy
Recycling is a success story – and one which Friends of the Earth and our supporters have been at the heart of since our first campaign to persuade Schweppes to take back used bottles in 1971.
Tees Valley disproves Coalition economics
Yesterday, Experian reported on the impact of that on the north east where 43 per cent of jobs are in the public sector. In Tees Valley, three council areas – Middlesbrough, Redcar and Hartlepool – all have very low resilience because they only have industries vulnerable to damage and closure, skill levels too low for easy transfer to other occupations, ageing populations and a weak enterprise culture.