Warm fluffy pledges won’t save the planet
Without detailed industrial plans, a radical shift in global economic thinking and a real Green New Deal, the climate emergency will only escalate, warns REBECCA LONG BAILEY
The welcome news that Cuba has finally been removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list is tempered by the fact that Donald Trump, the man who put it there, is returning to the White House, warns NATASHA HICKMAN
Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Many Western countries are grappling with deep political instability. What are the causes of this, and what could be a possible way forward? asks MARC VANDEPITTE
KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states clearly that we need a code red response to a code red emergency.
Days into the most important Cop of our lifetime we have seen warm fluffy pledges to shift away from coal, to end public financing for “unabated” fossil fuel projects abroad and we have countries proudly outlining their own targets to decarbonise industrial sectors.
Any action is of course positive but what we have seen so far is sparse. Sadly more toothless targets are not the code red response the world truly needs.
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As she returns to Westminster, REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP calls on the new government to scrap the two-child benefit cap immediately to ease families’ financial strain that she sees in Salford
The Prime Minster’s net zero U-turn makes no long-term economic sense and will leave working people and the poorest in our society counting the cost, says REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP
For decades many on the right of the political spectrum in Britain have strategically described health and safety as pointless red tape, leaving workers to suffer illness, injury and even death, warns REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP
As the bills mount up for working-class people, it is madness that nationalising energy suppliers is not a central part of the conversation despite all the evidence that shows it makes sense, writes REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP
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