Asking the wrong question – biofuels
I don’t want to do a full scale critique of biofuels – not least because that would be to enter …
Heads you win, tails I lose – the City explained
Imagine your job is taking huge gambles with other people’s savings and pensions. Imagine also that the bets are arranged …
Buddy can you spare a trillion? The EU budget review
Way past bedtime on 17th December 2005, frazzled European leaders decided how to spend just under one trillion Euro. They …
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Do not ditch the Kyoto Protocol
My otherwise peaceful morning slumber was disturbed by a radio interview announcing that social scientists Steve Rayner and Gwin Prins …
Severn barrage – flawed economics
Sometimes you can be wading through a report and hit something that abruptly tells you it isn’t really worth reading …
The Merton Rule – an investigation
Once it was famous only for the ’70s Mod-revival band, The Merton Parkas. And, frankly, it wasn’t that famous even …
Case for the Severn Barrage – does it hold water?
There’s speculation in the papers [last weekend’s Guardian, earlier in the Independent] that the government is to back the Severn …
It could be worse – winter fuel payments
In my last post I asked for nominations for a worse policy than the proposed ‘Health in Pregnancy Grant’. An …
Land use and food security
One of the big questions for me is whether we devote too much land to farming and not enough to …
When rich countries make emissions cuts in poor countries
Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) argues that richer countries should be able …
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