What is the future of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
Last weekend saw the latest data release from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). This has been a cornerstone of the EU climate policy since it’s introduction in 2003. Greenhouse…
The future of the Labour Left under Keir Starmer
After four and a half years of dominance in the Labour Party, the Labour Left have lost control of the leadership and the National Executive Committee with the election of…
Cuts, outsourcing and democratic deficits are stunting councils’ fight against coronavirus
England is one of the most centralised nations in the world. For years, local councils have faced brutal cuts to their budgets and stripping away of their powers by Westminster. Now…
Frontline workers deserve honest answers about their PPE concerns
Like most people in the UK, I’ve been hearing for weeks reports from medical professionals and care workers about their concerns about the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), but…
Coronavirus is opening dangerous political windows
The handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by many countries has been lacklustre. The UK government’s incompetence and posturing lost us EU ventilators and its lockdown measures have been half-heaRted and…
Celebrating the environmental “benefits” of coronavirus is ecologism at its most grim
‘I love not man the less, but Nature more’ might be the only line of Lord Byron’s poetry I know, and even then only because it's George Monbiot’s twitter bio.…
What does Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet mean for the Labour Left?
As Keir Starmer’s election as Leader of the Labour Party became increasingly inevitable over the three and a half months following Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation, Labour Party hacks had to turn…
Clapping for our carers is good. But there’s an even better thing you can do for the NHS.
Our cleaners, careers, teachers, refuse collectors and food industry workers are playing a vital role in this crisis. They deserve decent pay. The work done by our key-workers has been…
Where Rebecca Long-Bailey went wrong
Jeremy Corbyn famously said during the 2019 General Election that: "There is no such thing as Corbynism. There is socialism, there is social justice.” If Corbynism did ever exist as…
Bail out deserving people, not irresponsible corporations
Our government's fiscal strategy seems designed to exacerbate already-worsening economic conditions and pick up where the failures of 2008 left off. In the coming weeks, months, years the CEOs of…