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The Duncan Weldon economics column In my first post on LabourList I set out some of the economic challenges that will be faced by the next government and noted how the solutions to these economic challenges must be informed as much by…
From LabourList / @LabourList The Labour Party have this afternoon released a video of the Prime Minister speaking backstage at the G20 about how Britain is fighting back in difficult global economic circumstances. It's a good example of…
By Chris Cook What brought home the reality of emissions trading and carbon credits to me was a Futures and Options Conference I attended a few years ago. The ethics and morality-free zone of a panel of top energy traders was the sole…
By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Maybe it's battle fatigue. Perhaps the argument that Labour in office has simply been Thatcherism with a human face has taken hold - wrongly. Maybe while Labour is fighting for its political life the…
By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Maybe it's battle fatigue. Perhaps the argument that Labour in office has simply been Thatcherism with a human face has taken hold - wrongly. Maybe while Labour is fighting for its political life the…
By Adam Lent There can be little doubt that the Tories are scoring political successes with their one-note focus on cutting public spending. Hardly surprising given that the nation's media have pretty much lined up behind them. But in the…
By Hugh Lanning In a recent online debate, readers of the Economist were split 50/50 as to whether the rich should pay higher taxes. In contributing to the discussion I made the point that the rich should pay more taxes in three ways…
By James Allen The Government's ambitious plans for the UK's digital future obviously matter to a trade union representing members across the telecoms and ICT sectors, with the promise of much needed extra jobs and investment in the…
A LabourList Report The confidence in our banks and our banking sector has been severely diminished by the global financial crisis and subsequent recession, and to return to business as usual and not accept the lessons of the defining…
By Duncan Weldon As one would expect, given the severity of the current downturn, the economy has become the dominant the factor in political discourse over the past year. However most of the debate has revolved around the issue of how the…
By Michael Joslin I like to read all of the newspapers, even those that I despise, to get an idea of what the ordinary people in this country will be digesting over their morning cup of tea or on their commute to work. If someone who wasn't…
By Chris Rumiftt / @dispatchblog Cartoon: Martin Rowson, The Guardian If the budget, with its confirmation of the deep financial morass we now find ourselves in, were not gloomy enough, the reaction of the commentariat in today's newspapers…
