Sustainable development in 2012: Learning the lessons of 1987
As we enter 2012, what can we learn from looking back to 1987? Jules Peck looks at the state of play post-Durban and the state of green politics in the UK.
Green Politics
Manufacturers still fear a double-dip recession in 2012
Manufacturers remain worried a double dip recession is looming as the slight revised increase was based on higher growth in agriculture, construction and services.
The UK isn’t Greece, it’s Iceland
Alex Hern presents a picture which says everything needed about the sources and problems of British debt
Implementing Vickers won’t stop the next crisis
Josh Ryan Collins writes that the Vickers report, which is aimed at propping up bad banking, needs to go further, and encourage the creation of good banking: local, fair, safe banks, that aren’t too big to fail
Raising the pension age will be a public health disaster
Steve Griffiths argues that raising the retirement age will harm more than just the nation’s finances – it will also harm the nation’s health.
The south is on its way out of recession, but the north is stuck
IPPR North report on the growing economic split between the north and south of England; while the former may be recovering, the latter is stagnating – or worse.
Unemployment: How Cameron and Clegg are letting the next generation down
Today’s unemployment figures provide a grim reckoning of the mounting human, social, and long-term economic cost of thE government’s failures on the economy.
Unemployment: Plan A isn’t working
Richard Exell goes into great depth on today’s unemployment figures, and explains quite why they are so bad for the coalition.
Grim economic week: 128,000 more people jobless at Christmas
Alex Hern runs through the unemployment figures. Despite minor good news for Northern Ireland and the East of England, they remain grim.
Durban’s a letdown, Canada’s a dropout, and Russia’s leaking methane
Alex Hern rounds up the latest news from the Durban climate change sujmmit, and the latest environment news from around the world.