Switch off your lights, turn off your computer and prepare to fast! We’ve run out of resources! Is this the message from Earth Overshoot Day, the day in the year by which we’ve used the globes budget of resources and pollution absorbance capacity – or is there more to it?
As a result of the Coalition’s policies, unemployment will remain at a very high level and around 1 million people who want to work full-time will remain stuck in part-time jobs.
In a letter to today’s paper, the energy and climate change secretary has, in effect, confirmed that the emissions standard won’t be included in the coalition’s first energy bill. Instead, he uses the letter to reaffirm his commitment to bring forward the new green measure “as quickly as possible”.
Researchers analysing data on average incomes, house prices, life expectancy and educational attainment show that the gap between north and south has grown wider in the recession – and the dividing line is intriguing.
As The Guardian reveals on its front page today, the coalition may be about to U-turn on David Cameron’s flagship green policy of introducing tough new emissions performance standards to stop the dirtiest coal-fired power stations, like Kingsnorth, from beingtest
While the swivel-eyed TaxPayers’ Alliance and Policy Exchange continue to have a go at Professors Wilkinson and Pickett – authors of ‘The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone’ – at least some on the right seem to have been listening to the independent academics.
Chris Huhne and Baroness Warsi today attempted to lay the blame for cuts to come at Labour’s door. But the level of cuts was their ideological choice.
Today’s labour market figures present some promising news, as well as a number of concerning signs about the future direction of the labour market recovery.
GDP growth has been downgraded by the Bank of England partly due to the Coalition’s cuts. But growth in 2009-10 was at the top range of estimates set out last year.
The Daily Mail has become the latest previously ‘climate sceptic’ newspaper to shift its editorial line to acknowledge that climate change is “real and deeply worrying”. Today the paper’s science editor, Michael Hanlon, who could previously be seen as thetest
