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UK Housing Crisis
When The Axe Falls

 

A swingeing cut of 17.98% to the budget for new affordable homes would deepen the national housing crisis and lead to the loss of thousands of jobs and apprenticeships...

 

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The UK Food Industry
No Carrot, No Stick

 

Conservative proposals for a supermarket ombudsman fail to sufficiently address the problem...                        MORE >>

 
 
 
 
The Nord-Stream Pipeline Project
Not So United After All

 

The economics of gas pipelines are simple – whom ever is first to build a pipeline guarantees a near monopoly over the supply of gas to that region...  MORE >>

 
 
 
 
The EU and Climate Change
A Tumbling Leader

 

 

For the period 2000-2008, melting Greenland ice raised sea levels by an average of 0.46mm per year; since 2006, that has increased to 0.75mm per year...  MORE >>

 
 
  
 
Rail Franchising
A New Dawn

 

The earliest recorded private pit railway in Britain was built at Wollaton near Nottingham in 1604 by Huntingdon Beaumont; he subsequently took the idea north and by 1660 perhaps nine such railways existed on Tyneside...                          MORE >>

 
  
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From Inconsistency to Trend
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A Third Way for Renewable Energy
Why many see bio-fuels as the Holy Grail of alternative energies...
 
 
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Pipeline Politics
Volatile energy markets, unreliable and belligerent oil producers...
 
 

                                           
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Caroline F. Alo
 

 

 
"Save the liquid from the rain, for your shower tomorrow,
Turn out the light, let the moon be of use,
Let the plug and socket sleep separate tonight,
Be earth friendly"