Osborne’s combative response to the Lords’ rebellion last night makes the prospect of a vote of no confidence in the government less remote than it was. A handful of Conservative […]

How serious are the Conservative Tax Credits rebels? Seven could bring the government down. Cutting Tax Credits will re-instate the poverty trap caused by means testing with a vengeance, so […]

Friends advise me not to write ‘ad hominem’ posts. This one is ad feminam. Anne Pettifor can’t be all bad. She supports CASSE, devoted to ‘Steady state’ or no-growth economics, […]

I have just read Rupert’s article in the New Statesman (3rd Sept.). If only he had the guts to spell out the unavoidable implication – recruit ex-conservatives! Academic that he is, […]

Once upon a time it was obvious to anyone who joined the Green Party that two forms of growth must stop: per capita consumption – and population, if a planet […]