Green Politics
Tax increases must play a greater role in deficit reduction
A truly progressive government would give a bigger role to increasing taxes than was suggested in either the Conservative or Liberal Democrat manifestos.
What’s the damage?
We have been warned that next week’s Emergency Budget could bring pain for years to come. Cameron’s coalition has promised that such pain is inevitable but that the medicine will be administered fairly. But there remain many questions about what such ‘fairness’ means in practice.
Worrying signs of a Lib Dem cave-in on capital gains tax
Dropping progressive manifesto commitments just because they happen to offend the right wing of the Conservative party are becoming a depressingly regular feature of the new administration.
GLA leads the way on pay ratios
The Greater London Assembly is following the example it set on the Living Wage, again leading the way in best practice on remuneration and reducing inequality.
Unemployment – a mixed picture around the nations
Yesterday's headline figures on unemployment masked the mixed news on jobs that came out from across the devolved nations.
Tory right turn on Huhne over energy policy
The economic Lib Dems are seemingly finding common ground with Tory ideology, but the sticking point was and is always going to be the other side of the Lib Dem fence where Mr Huhne and the like reside.