When it comes to water and food, the European Union is part of the problem, not part of the solution says Kartika Liotard, MEP

The current financial crisis provides the ideal opportunity to implement tax reforms that would finance the conversion to eco-friendly industry: an environmental Keynesianism that would pull the world out of economic ruin and social chaos while getting the runaway global financial system under control, argues Susan George

Alex Salmond’s remark to Iain Dale that Scots ‘didn’t mind the economic side’ of Thatcherism, created a storm of hypocrisy and exposed a fundamental truth about Scottish politics, argues Gerry Hassan. Mainstream politicians are as united in tacitly accepting Thatcher’s legacy as in publicly abominating her policies.