Green Politics
Budget 2013: Reducing inequality should be at the forefront of Osborne’s mind today
The defining societal trend in the UK over the past 30 years has been the growth in inequality, with an ever higher share of the national income captured by a wealthy elite, while the wages of ordinary working people stagnate. Redressing the balance need not come at a cost to enterprise.
Hinkley C go ahead will see consumers ripped off for the next 40 years
New nuclear power stations fail every possible test - economic, consumer, environmental and arguably legal. Hinkley C will lock a generation of consumers into higher energy bills and distort energy policy by displacing newer, cheaper, cleaner technologies.
Budget 2013: Immigration ought to be encouraged to support economic growth – but don’t hold your breath
Across the country the very firms which are supposed to be seizing opportunities to return the economy to growth are encountering the tangle of immigration regulations which obstruct a significant part of their business plans to win export orders and expand into new markets.
Taxpayers’ money being used to fund tax avoidance schemes
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - a body that advises Britain and other European countries on tax and spend policies - has been accused of enabling global corporations such as Google Inc. (GOOG), Hewlett- Packard Co. and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) to dodge taxes by shifting profits into offshore subsidiaries.
Britain’s economic model is deeply flawed, but the government is doing nothing
One of the fundamental faultlines of the British model of finance capitalism - its failure to steer resources into the real, productive base of the economy - is not even on the government’s agenda. That's why the prospect of sustained recovery is proving so elusive.
Pay rises outstripped by inflation
The latest inflation figures show that pay rises are being outstripped by inflation.