Green Politics

Walking the walk on “secrecy jurisdictions”

The UK and US are committed to free and transparent markets. Right? Well that’s the line they like to spin, but the reality is that both rank among the five most secretive countries in the world, alongside Luxembourg, Switzerland andtest

Osborne the “clown” gets confused on stimulus

George Osborne was today accused by Chief Secretary Liam Byrne of making “a complete clown of himself” as he asserted that the US would be out of recession even without the stimulus, a claim denied by the two of thetest

Tory MEP confuses science with faith

A Conservative Party MEP today launched a stinging personal attack, with potentially discriminatory connotations, on the Nobel laureate, Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri – one of the world’s foremost climate experts. Writing on ConservativeHome, Roger Helmer said that Pachauri’s concerns abouttest

National Minimum Wage under attack

Mark Littlewood, the newly appointed Director General of Institute of Economic Affairs, has written a blistering attack on the National Minimum Wage. In the Personal View section of the Telegraph website, Littlewood writes: “The full, and substantial, cost of Britain’stest

The flaws behind John Howard’s defence of capitalism

John Howard, former Prime Minster of Australia, today writes a detailed defence of free market capitalism for Conservative Home defending, in the process, Conservative party economic policy, executive remuneration levels, and attacking US Government policy to encourage the provision of mortgage loans. Left Foot Forward fisks the five key points in the article.

Two-thirds in favour of bank windfall tax

A new ComRes poll for the Independent shows overwhelming public support for a windfall tax on the banks. But in their coverage, the Independent made no mention of the finding, which is at odds with their columnist Bruce Anderson.