by Richard | Dec 7, 2018 | General
This letter was in the Guardian on 7 December 2018: Your editorial’s revelation (6 December) that the 2014-16 carbon reductions were the result of an economic slowdown that helped fuel the rise of populism appears daunting for future climate-change initiatives....
by Richard | Nov 22, 2018 | General
Colin Hines had a letter in The Guardian on 22 November tackling the difficult issue of how to address populism, which he linked to the need for a Green New Deal: Your chilling, but hardly surprising, front-page revelation that one in four Europeans vote populist was...
by Richard | Oct 4, 2018 | General
This article was first posted on Social Europe on 4 October 2018: n the acres of recent coverage about the causes of the Lehman Brothers collapse and how to ensure it doesn’t happen again, there was much emphasis on changing the EU’s economic imperatives away from...
by Richard | Sep 30, 2018 | General
The letter was in The Observer on 30 September: Will Hutton is correct that public resistance to austerity and increasing support for tax and spend should provide a huge opportunity for Labour, but that its present stance on Brexit could keep it from power (“In...
by Richard | Sep 28, 2018 | General
This letter was published by the Guardian on 27 September: Jeremy Corbyn’s speech had three crucial and interlinked components: the need to transform the economy, to prioritise improving conditions in the “left-behind” areas, and a call for a “green jobs revolution in...
