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Andrew Pakes Articles

Consumers must come first after horsemeat scandal

This week marks one year on from the discovery of horsemeat sold as beef products in British supermarkets. Despite the media storm and public outrage at the scale of the horsemeat adulteration, significant questions remain about how we produce our food and protect...
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Cameron’s ‘green crap’ U-turn

Each day appears to bring a government U-turn at the moment, but none appears greater than the confusion surrounding David Cameron’s approach to energy policy. Rising energy prices have dominated the political agenda this autumn with the government forced onto the...
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We need to talk about climate change

A few weeks ago no one would have predicted that we would be in the middle of the party conference season with a debate dominated by energy prices. Whilst Nick Clegg ducked the opportunity to spell out his commitment to a non-carbon energy system, Ed Miliband took the...
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Unfinished business on equality

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the passage of Section 28. The then Conservative government used a backdrop of homophobia in much of the press to stir up a spurious campaign against councils involved in promoting equality. It was a terrible time in which...
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