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Scotland’s ‘reluctant Cameroons’
In a report published today entitled ‘Cameron’s Caledonian Conundrum’, 18 per cent of respondents in Scotland were more favourable to David Cameron than the Conservatives as a whole.
Graph: Competition between the Big Six isn’t working
This very helpful graph from IPPR sets out exactly why the failure of competition between the Big Six energy companies is having such an impact on household energy bills.
Profits, executive pay and bonuses at the Big Six energy firms
At today’s Energy and Climate Change Committee the bosses of the Big Six are likely to face a grilling by MPs over recent hikes in customer bills.
Ed Miliband’s biggest challenge will be to convice a fatalistic electorate that government can make a difference
Miliband is not only taking on the Big Six energy companies, he is pushing back against a public fatalism about government power to effect change that has been over 30 years in the making.
What does it mean to be left wing today?
The left-right divide is an important divide in British and international politics, but far from the only one.
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Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.
Excess Big Six profits are real, but the main problem is still the wholesale gas price
The figures released by Ofgem today should in no way create the sense that the price of wholesale gas is not the main cause of rising energy bills.
SNP fail to address affordability of council tax freeze
A senior academic has raised questions over the viability of the SNP’s council tax freeze.
Politicians should embrace an activist industrial policy
It is time politicians and policymakers re-appraised the advantages of an activist industrial policy.
If David Cameron values human rights he will pull out of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting
What Cameron’s decision appears to communicate is that accountability for mass murde isn’t that important to his government.