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Larry Elliott had an article under the above title in the Guardian on 31 January 2019. As he noted: Full disclosure here: I was a founder member of the UK Green New Deal Group in 2007 and have been banging on about the idea – with almost zero impact – ever since....

From The Guardian on 4 January 2019: Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy efficiency in all buildings, renewables and local transport systems The counter to...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Green New Deal Group has launched a new report this morning. This is a summary: Jobs in Every Constituency A Green New Deal Election Manifesto Background To return a sense of hope for the future and economic security for all, the government and all political...

This letter was published in The Guardian on 10 August 2018: Kim and Nick Hoare’s heartfelt call for a cross-party action programme for tackling climate change is crucial (Letters, 9 August). Yet there is a way that the UK could contribute to substantially reducing...

Larry Elliott had an article under the above title in the Guardian on 31 January 2019. As he noted: Full disclosure here: I was a founder member of the UK Green New Deal Group in 2007 and have been banging on about the idea – with almost zero impact – ever since....

From The Guardian on 4 January 2019: Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy efficiency in all buildings, renewables and local transport systems The counter to...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Green New Deal Group has launched a new report this morning. This is a summary: Jobs in Every Constituency A Green New Deal Election Manifesto Background To return a sense of hope for the future and economic security for all, the government and all political...

This letter was published in The Guardian on 10 August 2018: Kim and Nick Hoare’s heartfelt call for a cross-party action programme for tackling climate change is crucial (Letters, 9 August). Yet there is a way that the UK could contribute to substantially reducing...