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Earth Hour 2010: Tonight at 8:30pm
Tonight at 8:30pm people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights in support for WWF’s Earth Hour. Watch the campaign video.
A budget for enterprise, if not jobs
On balance, it is probably fair to say the 2010 Budget will be welcomed by most as a small business-friendly one, although the devil will be in the detail.
Fox’s Sri Lankan jolly under scrutiny
Liam Fox's paid-for trips to Sri Lanka, revealed by LFF last month, are reported today in a BBC report into MPs' overseas trips paid for by foreign governments.
IPSA chair outlines vision of reforming expenses
Recent events leave us in no doubt that the parliamentary rulebook is in need of drastic reform. The question is, what form should it take?
Harnessing the distributed intelligence of the blogosphere
The mainstream media give a select group of think tanks and corporate interests air space in the name of balance. The blogosphere can help rubbish much of the bias.
How soaring inequality contributed to the crash
A similar mechanism was at work in the build-up to the great depression of the 1930s, with a great surge in the concentration of wealth in the United States.