Green Politics
Tory National Insurance cut is regressive
The IFS have reported on the three parties' tax and spend plans. They shows that the Tory's cut to National Insurance is regressive.
Ken Clarke: Government right (and Osborne wrong) on Northern Rock
Ken Clarke contradicted George Osborne today. On BBC's Election Debate he said that the Labour government had been right to nationalise Northern Rock.
Reflections on climate politics across the English-speaking world
Lord Giddens’s think tank, Policy Network, has just published two new papers examining changes in climate politics in the US and Australia.
Greg Clark’s carcrash TV on Tory climate scepticism
Greg Clark failed to answer questions about his party's climate scepticism on BBC's Election Debate from. Ed Miliband, Simon Hughes and Justin Rowlatt.
Democrat leadership throws climate progress into doubt
This weekend, the Obama administration threw American, and therefore international, climate progress into doubt when it put the climate and energy bill on ice.
Labour’s green appeal to first time voters
Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband this morning launched Labour’s ‘green manifesto’. The Climate Secretary made an appeal direct to first time voters.