BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
Renewables are cheaper: time to break fossil fuel’s pricing grip
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
THE WAY FORWARD: A general view of the Viking windfarm SSE Renewables at Voe in Shetland last February 2024
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
IN BRITAIN, wholesale electricity prices are currently, irrationally, determined by the most expensive form of generation in the mix — currently predominantly gas — and consequently consumers are having to pay significantly more for energy generated from renewables even though it costs far less to produce.
This is undoubtedly galling for Scotland, which was the first nation in Britain to generate almost 100 per cent of its electricity from wind, solar and hydro processes.
In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s weaponisation of gas supplies, this inequity has been exacerbated.
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