Balancing Green Goals and Financial Realities: Labour’s Net Zero Dilemma
Yet another example of inadequate green targets meeting the notion that even that much action is somehow too costly.
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Freeports Are Dangerous
Rishi Sunak is still flogging his failed freeports initiative as a success. If they were to take off, the winners would be dodgy operators.
Read more...British Government Invents Phantom Skripals to Refuse to Testify in the Novichok Inquiry
A new lawyer materializes in a London court to say the Skripals refuse to testify in Novichok Inquiry, but it appears as though counsel has had no contact with the Skriprals.
Read more...“Am I An Extremist? ”
How the UK is using the extremist label to act against people holding mainstream views. The US is not far behind.
Read more...UK Banks Will Go Bust Because of Climate Change
The UK has low-lying terrain that has nevertheless been developed and will go underwater with climate change and take a lot of banks with it.
Read more...Remembering A Day the West Wants to Forget
Russia celebrates its victory over Nazism on May 9 while in the West decades of historical revisionism blaming the USSR for WWII has helped rehabilitate Nazis and lead us to the New Cold War crisis today.
Read more...Do We Really Need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?
Theresa May’s [anti] modern slavery project serves as a point of departure for considering policy options.
Read more...Western Wind Turbine Manufacturers Struggle to Compete with Chinese Pricing
The US, UK and Europe fall behind China in a supposed priority area, wind turbines.
Read more...Why Are Their Lordships So Frightened of Modern Monetary Theory?
Efforts are underway to discredit modern monetary theory in the UK.
Read more...Rishi Sunak Orders Crackdown on Protests Despite Court Challenge
Human rights group Liberty lodges a legal challenge to the Tories’ efforts to clamp down on protests.
Read more...The Government’s Deliberate Policy of Prejudicing the Poorest in Our Society Is Imposing Destitution on Millions
UK and US policy are mean to the poor, even though that stinginess costs all of us.
Read more...Russiagate Revived in Latest MI6 Operation Against Russia — A Spy Alone Is Spy Baloney
Russiagate fever reaches a new pitch with a new supposed spook-tells-all tale of Russia fixing the Brexit vote.
Read more...U.S. and UK Forces Hit Military Targets in Yemen
The US and its hanger-on, the UK, bomb Yemen, risking escalation to a regional war….to protect their manhood and Israel’s genocide.
Read more...The British Roots of the Conflict in Palestine
How the British set up and fed strife between Israeli and Palestine.
Read more...“We Need to Raise a Lot More in Tax from the Wealthy but That Does Not Convince Me That We Need a Wealth Tax”
Why a wealth tax is not only no magic bullet, but also not likely to work very well.
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