Green Politics
Just who WILL Osborne listen to?
We’re in a unique political economy, one in which there is no market discipline on the government pursuing the wrong […]
Government continues not being greenest ever
Following on from Hammond’s environmentally destructive attempt at populism on Friday, the Conservatives have this weekend struck two more blows […]
Osborne dreaming of a race to the bottom
Alex Hern argues that much of the chancellor George Osborne’s plans for economic growth will put the UK in a race to the bottom which it cannot possibly win.
Gideon’s grotesque attempt to blame workers’ rights for unemployment
George Osborne’s speech Tory party conferencetoday was (amongst other things) a transparent attempt to shift the blame for unemployment to workers’ rights.
Council tax freeze is a tax cut for the rich
Pete Challis explains how much more the rich benefit from a council tax freeze than the poor do.
FTSE suffers worst quarterly fall since 2002 as fears rise of “Great Stagnation”
The FTSE fell 13.7 per cent since the start of July - the worst quarterly fall since Q3 2002 and the fourth worst in its history, reports Shamik Das.