Environment

Housing – the housing market is dysfunctional delivering neither the houses we need nor at prices we can afford. It represents far too great a share of our economy and the drive to create a house ownership democracy has resulted in over inflated prices. The government continues to subsidise the sector through subsidies that are not granted to other investment options, which in turn has further inflated prices. For example if you take...

In the US and China, climate change is the perhaps the most-talked about issue in the political debate. Despite the imminent election in the UK, nobody would say the same there. Source: How we stopped talking about the climate this election — and why thats a problem –...

Yesterday was Earth Day an event marked across the world by people who are concerned about the future of our planet and the impact of climate change.  But apparently this does not include our political leaders who did not even make reference to climate change in their press conferences. To mark Earth Day the world scientists again published what they think needs to be done: Limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius Keeping...