Ridleyed With Errors
Matt Ridley only digs his hole deeper as he attempts to justify his distortions.
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Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet
Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.
The German Disease
The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.
Treachery or Common Sense?
I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.
A Great Green Rip-Off
The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.
Bleak Havens
How the ultra-rich enslave themselves
The Population Myth
People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor
Toxic Assets
The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping
The Great Cop-Out
Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.
Outsourcing Unrest
The 300 year colonial adventure is over at last, which is why Britain is in political crisis.
The Biggest, Weirdest Rip-Off Yet
The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.
A Better Way to Make Money
Here’s how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.
Pin-Striped Pirates
Why does the UK retain a handful of colonies? To destroy the world’s taxation systems.
Clearing Up This Mess
John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.
This Is What Denial Does
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.
Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.
Green Lifeline
A radical new idea could save the world’s ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
An Exchange of Souls
As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.
Three Million Homes?
Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.
Libertarians are the True Social Parasites
Matt Ridley raged against the government - until he needed £16 billion
How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago
The Emperor of Africa
Tony Blair cannot let go of Britain’s inordinate global powers
Selling Indulgences
The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual
Britain’s Most Selfish People
Owning a second home during a housing crisis ensures that other people are homeless.
Property Paranoia
Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms
The Man Who Betrayed the Poor
Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent
Bards of the Powerful
Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.
Spin, Lies and Corruption
The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket
A Game of Double Bluff
The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons
A Restraint of Liberty
Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom
Paid-up Members
How can MPs represent us when they earn up to 95% of their income from outside interests?
Fraud and Corruption
Where has Iraq’s money gone?
Punitive – And It Works
Sweden proves the neoliberals wrong about how to slash poverty.
A Scandal of Secrecy and Collusion
Why have we paid £93m for a £15m bridge?
Expose the Tax Cheats
The best way of dealing with tax avoidance is to publish everyone’s returns.
Goodbye, Kind World
We’ve never had it so good, and we never will again.
The Immigrants the Tabloids Love
The rightwing campaign against economic migrants may not be as irrational as it appears.
The Philosophy of Cant
Europe wrecked the world trade talks, but it may accidentally have forced the poor world to assert its power. Final installment of the series on trade.
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Whose Side Are You On?
Some of those calling for changes in the way we trade are working against the interests of the poor. This is the second of a three-part series on trade.
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Universal Fair Trade
We need a global trading regime which permits only the nice guys to survive.
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Le Monde, C’est Nous
At the world trade summit next week, the rich world will ensure that the poor world stays that way. This is the first of a three-part series on trade
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Stealing Nations
The International Monetary Fund does not make its “mistakes” by accident.
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I Was Wrong About Trade
“Localisation” is both destructive and unjust
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Enslaved by Free Trade
The West became rich by ignoring patent rules and protecting its industries. Poor countries should be allowed to do the same.
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Rich in Imagination
The figures which purport to show that the world’s poor are emerging from poverty don’t add up
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The Bottom Dollar
The way to check American power is to support the euro
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Left Behind to Starve
A humanitarian disaster is engulfing Africa as cash is poured into the war with Iraq and its aftermath
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Deliver Us from Finity
Capitalism is not even mathematically possible, let alone biologically viable
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What Do We Really Want?
The richer we are, the more miserable we become.
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White Lies
African leaders will be forced to humble themselves at the G8 summit, by taking the blame for what has happened to their continent
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Patent Nonsense
Nothing exposes the hollowness of the claims corporations now make to intellectual property as much as their own histories
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Making Generosity Redundant
Our global institutions are destined to fail. They need to be replaced.
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Dig Up the Roads
Local economies will prosper only by cutting their global links
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There Is No Debt
The Third World “debt” is simply an accounting device
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The Billion-Dollar Bonus
We Need a Global Maximum Wage
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The Rich Walk Away
It’s time for a global corporation tax
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Mortal Injustice
The countries least responsible for global warming will be hit hardest
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Cannibal Feast
By buying second homes all over Britain, the rich are preying on the lives of the poor
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Move the Capital to Newcastle
It’s the only way to bridge Britain’s disastrous divisions
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A Murderous Conspiracy
The US government is trying to destroy South Africa’s AIDS prevention programme
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Inequality Before the Law
The powerful enjoy immunity, while the law treats the powerless ever more harshly
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Slave Labour
Cutting benefits will undermine society
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Sold Down the River
50 per cent of all the new homes in central and inner London are being sold to speculators in the Far East
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The Corporate Dole Queue
Britain’s corporations are living off state handouts
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A War Against the Poor
New housing plans are shutting the poor out of the South-East of England
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Building on Sand
Hong Kong’s financial difficulties are partly due to land speculation. Britain has the same unhealthy patterns
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Stealing from the Poor
The superstores are bigger criminals than the shoplifters
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Warm Words, but no Action
30,000 old people are dying of cold each year, and the Government does nothing
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