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Month: August 2009 Articles

What we’re reading: 25 August 2009

Your daily progressive news round-up!

The government is taking steps in the right direction, but more action is needed to create the green jobs of tomorrow

The dispute at the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight
following the announcement that production would move to China, with
the resulting loss of 625 jobs, has brought home not simply the reality
of the recession but the rhetoric around ‘green jobs’.

Arms export controls

The UK must do more to ensure that its arms export industry is not engaging in the illegal arms trade

The culture wars roar on

In the healthcare debate Obama must appeal to the high idealism and civic nationalism which run deep in American values