Billionaire financier Jim Rogers has predicted that the British Pound could completely collapse within weeks, sending shockwaves throughout the global economy and heralding the beginning of a downturn that would make the recent economic crisis look tame in comparison.

"Other currencies aren’t strong and the Euro has real problems, with cracks much wider than Greece beginning to show," Rogers said.  Read more »

Millions of people could lose almost every penny of their assets under a new “death tax” being considered by Labour to fund care for the elderly.

And poorer people would lose out the most, leaving their children with next to nothing to inherit, analysis showed yesterday.  Read more »

The UN and other agencies calling for a war on global warming say the price tag will be trillions.

But - according to top experts on climate and cap and trade - the regulatory framework being rammed through in America and internationally won't actually reduce carbon to any meaningful degree.  Read more »

Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than City bankers, according to a report that shows many low-paid workers increase the wellbeing of the nation more than the high-flying and much better-paid financial-sector staff.

The New Economics Foundation said today that a study of the social impacts of several jobs revealed that City workers, advertising executives and tax advisers destroyed value, while hospital cleaners, childcare workers and staff in the waste-recycling industry gave much more to the country than they took out.  Read more »

National aid budgets dedicated to reducing global poverty would be raided to establish a "climate fund" to help developing countries to adapt to climate change, under a British plan tabled yesterday in Copenhagen.

Money earmarked for education or health would be diverted into projects such as solar panels and wind farms.  Read more »

The internet is such a huge part of life that Mandelson's plans to cut people off for copyright breach is a clear restriction of liberty.

At 33 years old I'm more Generation X than Generation X-Box. I'm too old to be one of the new wave of "digital natives" who've never known life without the internet, but I'm just about young enough (and geeky enough) to consider myself an enthusiastic immigrant.  Read more »

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW.

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet.  Read more »