Green Politics
Balls woos Cable, in Plan B plea to “sensible people in the government”
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has followed Labour leader Ed Miliband’s lead, making fresh overtures to business secretary Vince Cable.
Extreme weather, extreme prices: Time for governments to ‘stress-test’ global food system
Tracy Carty, Climate Change Policy Advisor at Oxfam, writes about Oxfam’s “Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world” report.
Time for our leaders to face up to the facts: Austerity is killing jobs and the recovery
It’s time our leaders faced up to the facts: austerity is killing jobs and no amount of discussion on reforming employment policy will disguise that basic fact.
Umunna: The case for an active government and modern industrial policy
Read the text of shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna's speech todoay to Policy Network’s conference on growth and a new political economy.
Risk of 23-year slump as Cameron now forecast to borrow double what Brown was
David Cameron and George Osborne are set to borrow double the figure Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were projected to.
London’s cost of living crisis: Boris needs to help ease the burden on households
Labour’s message to London Mayor Johnson is simple, when you’re able to help and support people by easing the burden on household finances, you should.