Green Politics
If RBS’s board is not held to account, it could become a new Leyland
To avoid disaster, RBS’s global markets division - the failing part of RBS - should be closed so the state can focus on its investment elsewhere.
Businesses in a funk: The real reason GDP fell in Q4 2011
GDP contracted because businesses went into a funk, cut their spending and hoarded cash instead, writes IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin.
Workfare versus compulsory work: When is it right and wrong to mandate labour?
Richard Exell looks at the tricky issues dividing workfare (bad) from mandating paid work (good). Is there a line that can be drawn?
It isn’t “anti-business” to oppose high pay for mediocrity
One Society’s Larissa Hansford argues that businesspeople don’t know the first thing about what is and isn’t “anti-business”.
New record high for NEETs in 2011 – but why?
IPPR’s Richard Darlington looks at why there’s been such a rocket in the number of NEETs in 2011. Is it EMA? Is it the Future Jobs Fund? Is it just the Tories?
Rewards for failure continue at the top of industry
Alex Hern examines the common link between the appalling bad RBS quarter, and the appallingly good Centrica one: Rewards for failure.