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Virtue signalling? How not to save the planet!

by Brian Monteith – 3 minute read DID YOU KNOW, today is World Rainforest Day? If not I doubt you are alone. Such is the plethora of special days, you cannot be expected to know them all. So don’t feel guilty about not knowing about World Rainforest Day. After all, I’m sure you're already doing [...]

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Quelle surprise – EU says ‘Jump!’ and Starmer says ‘How high?’

By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read STARMER’S BREXIT DEAL was entirely predictable, maintaining the notional illusion of Brexit where the reality is the UK is increasingly close to being a de facto member of the EU. Sure we have legal independence, but barely a policy or regulation, eight years after the Referendum to leave the EU, [...]

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Labour’s ‘Borrowing for investment’ is the Net Zero transition in disguise – and could cost the UK nearly £7 trillion

By Bob Lyddon – 3 minute read LABOUR’S ‘borrowing for investment’ will part-finance the Net Zero transition in a repeat of New Labour’s Private Finance Initiative and the EU’s InvestEU, and cost the UK nearly £7 trillion. The Labour Government’s Climate Change Committee’s Carbon Budgets are a dangerous fiction in that they exclude these financing costs. [...]

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‘Borrowing for investment’ – How Labour will go big by aping the EU’s InvestEU and creating more PFI 

By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read LABOUR’S new ‘iron’ fiscal rules will open the floodgates to ‘borrowing for investment’, under the Government’s new measure of the national debt, called ‘Public sector net liabilities’. That is the message of my paper ‘ ‘Borrowing for investment’ – what is meant by this statement in theoretical terms’ published [...]

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