A pretty good argument for at least some deficit-funded infrastructure spending
Seeing Sandy coming.From the 10 September New York Times, Mireya Navarro wrote: With higher seas, a common storm could prove as damaging as the rare big storm or hurricane is today, scientists say....
View ArticleStar Wars: A sale or a sell-out?
News of the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilms sparks fears for the future of Star WarsTo sell or not to sell? It’s a question faced by all cult classics at one point or another. Yet, Star Wars fans...
View ArticleNotes from a feminist book tour: it's alright to want everything
Somewhere along the line women seem to have forgotten how far we’ve got to go.The man in the audience is calling me a liar. He sits a few rows back, behind the women and the handful of men who have...
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Watch: Prowse and Rubinstein upset Barclays security guards
New stunt from the Revolution Will Be Televised stars.Revolution Will Be Televised stars Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein have made a new video attacking Barclays for speculating on food prices. The...
View ArticleThe left-wing case for a flexible labour market
Labour market flexibility, if harnessed properly, can be a force for individual and collective good, says Gillian Econopouly.The economic tumult of the last several years has profoundly shaken the UK...
View ArticlePMQs sketch: Cameron gets pulled back into the doldrums
Miliband decided to split the torture in two today.One of the great mysteries of modern politics is how the leader of the Labour Party manages to smuggle a sharp pointy stick past Commons security...
View ArticleLeader: The world cannot afford a defeat for Barack Obama
A Romney victory would greatly increase the chances of war with Iran, embolden the most reactionary elements in Israel and further accelerate climate change.If Barack Obama has fallen short of the...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Awareness Month is a terrible thing
There are many, many reasons why the "pink ribbon" campaign isn't always a force for good.In the past month, a surprising number of things have turned pink. Debenhams, for instance, and the t-shirts of...
View ArticleEd’s in trouble with Leveson
There is growing wariness in Labour ranks about where the phone-hacking debate is heading.Hugh Grant is starting to annoy people. “Who does the guy think he is?” one exasperated shadow cabinet member...
View ArticleThe left must beware of excessive pessimism
The search for economic realism and credibility can easily tip into fatalism.The task for a Labour government elected in 2015 will be a tough one. The debt and deficit will still be high and so one,...
View ArticleNew York in the teeth of a hurricane – heroes and errors
Volunteers have made heroic efforts, but why didn't the evacuation start earlier?Just after eight o'clock, Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the eastern seaboard – and so did the "storm surge", the...
View ArticleBeing unable to buy elections isn't a bug, it's a feature
"Markets in everything" can be taken too far.Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt blogs an idea which, frankly, demonstrates why we're pretty justified in keeping a sharp divide between economists and...
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Chart of the day: an effective minimum
From the Resolution Foundation's report into living standards, a stark visualisation of the effect of the minimum wage.
View ArticleCameron suffers first major Commons defeat on EU budget vote
Tory rebels and Labour vote by 307 to 294 to support a real-terms cut in the EU budget. It turns out that the government wasn't bluffing when it briefed that it would lose tonight's EU budget vote....
View ArticleNatural Gas Video
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Natural Gas: facts and figures
Facts and figures Global primary energy mix by consumption
View ArticleCommons Confidential: Wanted - a dingo for Dave
Meet Lynton Crosby - Malcolm Tucker with an Aussie twang.Quite a fandango during a backbench business committee session on Owen Paterson’s fatwa on Mr Brock the Badger. The crusade by the furry-loving...
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Are we closing off technology options for a low carbon future?
Mike Stephenson, British Geological Survey In a now famous article in the journal Science, Pacala and Socolow introduced the scientific world to the concept of ‘stabilization wedges’. These are units...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. Michael Heseltine's on the right road – so who's going to take it? (Guardian) The Treasury must hate the maverick former minister's...
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