Category: economic justice

The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet

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.

The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.

Here’s how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.

Why does the UK retain a handful of colonies? To destroy the world’s taxation systems.

John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.

The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.

They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.

A radical new idea could save the world’s ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?

As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.

Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.

Matt Ridley raged against the government – until he needed £16 billion

Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago