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The perils of inflexibility
12 July 2013
George Osborne has rejected outright the possibility of further tax rises as part of the government’s fiscal consolidation programme. Analysing the forecasts for government borrowing the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) recently said that in order to relieve pressure on...
Continue ReadingGreen prosperity
10 July 2013
There have been concerns from some environmentalists that Labour doesn’t ‘get’ the importance of political leadership on climate change. Any such fears can now be banished after Ed Ball’s speech to the Green Alliance. It was a speech about infrastructure that...
Continue ReadingThe democratic promise of the labour movement
10 July 2013
Political controversy over the trade union political levy is nothing new. Stanley Baldwin made a powerful speech in its defence in 1924, in response to a Tory private members bill which sought to legislate for union members contracting in rather...
Continue ReadingIn defence of truth and belief
6 July 2013
It is a troubling conclusion that the environmental movement has been unable to capitalise on overwhelming evidence in favour of dramatic co2 emissions reductions. In the same way that the financial crisis did not automatically improve the fortunes of the...
Continue ReadingGreen Labour
6 July 2013
The environment and citizenship programme is one that tries to grapple with what I think can be summed up by two central questions: Firstly, how can we keep the environment on the agenda at a time of economic insecurity and uncertainty? And...
Continue ReadingLabour’s luminaries
5 July 2013
In the summer of 1888, there was uproar on the streets of the East End. 1,400 matchmakers, mostly women and young girls, had walked out of Bryant & May’s factory in Bow and were picketing its gates. This horrified polite society. Victorian...
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