Tomorrow, the 9th February 2010, at 10:45 in Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons, Jenni Russell the writer and commentator of the Guardian will chair a meeting on the “Politics of Fairness”. This has come in response to a recent report by the Equality Panel
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Business & Finance
The US powers out of recession, the UK limps behind
Whilst the UK economy hobbled out of recession with a 0.1% increase in the fourth quarter of 2009, the US recorded a more emphatic annualised rate of 5.7%.
The UK figure was actually within error margins
Environment
Plastic soup in our ocean gyres
Whilst everyone gossips about whether climate change data has been manipulated or not and traders quietly start making fortunes trading carbon credits, there is an environmental disaster happening right under our noses.
This disaster can be seen and quantified. It can be measured and easily demonstrated
The environment, what do we really know?
According to the Times Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, knew about the flaws in the Himalaya Glacier report well before the Copenhagen climate summit. The report was a major factor in formulating the summit’s proposals.
The report claimed that most of the Himalayan glaciers would have melted away by 2035. But according to most
House Price Bubble
Why are house prices defying gravity?
The Halifax has just released its monthly figures for January that show prices have increased by 0.6% extending the recovery that started in April.
House prices will rise by 6% in 2010
Just a month ago the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicted that 2010 would see house prices
