Urgency of Now: Reforming fisheries policy, protecting biodiversity
William Bain MP, the shadow food, farming and fisheries minister, writes on the need to reform the Common Fisheries Policy and the need to protect biodiversity.
Green Politics
The key questions for the new Energy Bill
Shadow energy minister Huw Irranca-Davies MP poses some of the key unanswered questions for the government’s new Energy Bill.
Devolved nations call on coalition to act on funding and economic strategy
Left Foot Forward’s Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs reports on the devolved nations’ call for the coalition to act on funding and economic strategy.
Misery on the rise, while demand for jobs is falling
The latest news on jobs highlights the weak state of the labour market and does not paint the picture of an economy just about to return to confidence.
Westminster must take on energy giants to prevent fuel poverty
That even now, in 2011, families are forced to choose between whether to heat the home or eat a meal, is absurd and tragic in equal measure writes Olly Parker
A price too high? The risks of not protecting nature are startling
The Natural Environment White Paper, ‘The Natural Choice’, does offer some hope for protecting UK wildlife, writes Friends of the Earth campaigner Paul de Zylva.
Declining living standards pre-date the recession and threaten the recovery
Average UK living standards are in their first prolonged decline since the late 1920s. Most attribute this to the recession, but its roots go back a lot further.
IMF backs Osborne – but warns of risks ahead
The International Monetary Fund today gave its backing to George Osborne’s public spending cuts and tax increases, and also highlighted the significant risks to growth and unemployment.
The madness of more of the same
The gravest global economic crisis since the 1930s was clearly a crisis of the private sector – yet it is the public sector which is getting the blame and must be cut.
Labour suffers from economic “Stockholm Syndrome”
One of the reasons that economies are being crucified on the cross of ‘austerity’ is the discrediting of so-called Keynesian policies of the 1970s, writes Ann Pettifor.