Vince Cable caught seeking to scupper UK’s climate efforts
Joss Garman looks at the rifts and suprising divisions in the coalition government over environmental issues.
Green Politics
Adair in Nuclear Wonderland
The 10:10 campaign’s Alexis Rowell questions Lord Adair Turner’s analysis of the costs of nuclear power.
Vote 2011: The sustainable transport challenges in NI, Scotland & Wales
Left Foot Forward’s Eleanor Besley, a policy advisor at Sustrans, outlines the sustainable transport measures the devolved administrations should take.
Mail masks Thatcher’s true legacy: Unions busted, hours extended, productivity held back
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher was fewer workplace rights, longer working hours and less productivity in the UK.
Falling growth means “government will miss deficit reduction target”
A leading economic think tank has warned that falling growth means government will miss its deficit reduction target. They predict growth in 2011 of 1.4%.
The OBR, personal debt and the living standards gap
The Resolution Foundation’s Gavin Kelly and Matthew Whittaker look at whether squeezed households will really borrow more to prop up living standards.
Economic update – May 2011
The ippr’s senior economist Tony Dolphin looks at the key economic indicators and reviews the state of the UK economy in his latest economic update for Left Foot Forward.
GDP figures show economic growth has ground to a halt
The eagerly awaited GDP figures for the first quarter of 2011 show that output is only back to the level of the third quarter of 2010. In effect, economic growth has ground to a halt.
Retail sales – it’s the volume figures that matter
Tony Dolphin, ippr’s senior economist, reports on the latest retail sales data from the Office for National Statistics.
Matt Hancock is drawing the wrong lessons from America
Former adviser to chancellor George Osborne, Tory MP Matthew Hancock, has made a massive error in his analysis of the American economy, writes Duncan Weldon.