Budget 2010: We need a new strategic investment fund
Next week’s Budget is the Government’s last real chance to set the industrial agenda. It should grab that chance with both hands.
Green Politics
Budget 2010: Fixing finances and cutting carbon
This week’s budget is being held against the backdrop of severe pressures on public finances, with politicians being exhorted to “think the unthinkable”.
Budget 2010: Protect those hit hardest by the recession
The target to halve child poverty by 2010 looks certain to be missed. But the Budget should contain measures to protect the incomes of poor working families.
Budget 2010: Britain needs a Green New Deal
Building a low-carbon economy could be worth in the order of £200 billion from now through to 2020, and hundreds of billions more than that through to 2030.
Digital Economy Bill: the final instalment
With the third reading of the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Lords, the Bill is now looking like a home run in its present form.
Time for a High Pay Commission?
Our guest writer is Gina Byrne of Compass “Why is it always the little guy who gets shafted?” The question hung in the air momentarily, echoing around the large committee room. It was what everyone present – and perhaps thetest
Miliband ads “don’t go far enough” says Green leader
The climate change adverts banned today do not go far enough in their warnings of the dangers of inaction, the Green party leader has told Left Foot Forward.
Labour market in holding pattern
Unemployment has unexpectedly fallen. The labour market effectively remains in a holding pattern with encouraging headline numbers, but worry underlying trends.
Budget 2010: Keeping it sensible
Ahead of the Budget, all the main political parties should set out their plans on the economy and allow the electorate to choose between them on polling day.
Unemployment should be at the heart of the election debate
Adults in workless households are twice as likely to be poor as those in homes where some adults work, and 9 times as likely as homes in which all adults work.