Category: economic justice

Stripped Bare

Shocking new financial manouevres by the British government show who it’s really working for.

You thought elections counted for something? Look at what wasn’t in the manifesto.

A leaked document, published exclusively on monbiot.com, shows that the government has been secretly protecting bankers’ bonuses.

This is the text of the leaked document referred to in Bonus Balls.

According to the latest smear campaign, I’m the new Howard Hughes. Sorry to disappoint you.

The government has abandoned its sustainable homes policy – by redefining zero.

Many PFI deals were undemocratic and against the national interest. It’s time we stopped honouring them.

How Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs surrendered to the tax avoiders

The economic crisis is the disaster the Conservatives have been praying for. Now they can reshape the economy on corporate lines.

Matt Ridley only digs his hole deeper as he attempts to justify his distortions.

The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.

Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.

The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.

I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.

The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.

How the ultra-rich enslave themselves

People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor

The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping

Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.

The 300 year colonial adventure is over at last, which is why Britain is in political crisis.