Simon Leadbetter

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Latest posts by Simon Leadbetter:

• Is Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of investment research an ‘open-minded’ climate sceptic? on Friday, May 17th, 2013

• Google, Amazon, etc: blame tax laws, not the taxman or taxpayer on Friday, May 17th, 2013

• Financial Times advises on how to become a shareholder activist on Thursday, May 16th, 2013

• How denial works: from geocentrism to tobacco to climate change on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

• UKIP’s success in the local election is a rallying cry for smaller parties on Thursday, May 9th, 2013

• The self-interested (or selfish) investor on Friday, May 3rd, 2013

• Vote Green (where they can win) if you care about the future on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

• Twitter hoax wipes $200bn off Dow Jones (for five minutes) on Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

• Thatcherism was never about ‘me’ and ‘now’. Quite on Thursday, April 11th, 2013

• Baroness Thatcher dies: an Iron Lady, definitely; a Green Lady, maybe on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

• Big is the enemy of the good in all industries on Sunday, April 7th, 2013

• Lomborg talking nonsense (again) on global warming on Saturday, April 6th, 2013

• Hades needed one three-headed watchdog; the City needs three separate ones on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

• Are capitalism and conservation incompatible? on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

• Extreme weather is not a ‘pub bore’s forecast’ on Thursday, March 28th, 2013

• On this day in 1963: the Beeching cuts were not a cut or axe; they were butchery on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

• ‘There are no moral or ethical considerations when investing’ on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

• Is sustainable investment gaining traction among financial advisers? on Monday, March 25th, 2013

• On this day in 1807: British Empire abolishes slave trade on Monday, March 25th, 2013

• Why sustainable investment? Because there is no plan(et) B on Monday, March 25th, 2013

• Why sustainable investment? Because it is the right thing to do on Friday, March 22nd, 2013

• Why sustainable investment? Because it makes sense on Thursday, March 21st, 2013

• Myopic budget threatens UK’s long-term prosperity on Thursday, March 21st, 2013

• The budget speech we want to see on Monday, March 18th, 2013

• Today’s The Times leader written honestly on Monday, March 18th, 2013

• Defenders of a free press are being dishonest on Saturday, March 16th, 2013

• Pope Francis: assuming responsibility for nature? on Thursday, March 14th, 2013

• Don’t panic! 35 years ago today… on Friday, March 8th, 2013

• We don’t have a pope on Friday, March 1st, 2013

• Free markets need to be free on Thursday, February 28th, 2013

• Honesty, subtlety and complexity in science reporting on Thursday, February 21st, 2013

• The very well-funded war against climate science and all of us on Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

• Ed Miliband’s Bedford speech heavy on rhetoric, weak on action on Saturday, February 16th, 2013

• Government scapegoating retail for horsemeat scandal is pathetic on Friday, February 15th, 2013

• Happy 125th birthday to the Financial Times on Wednesday, February 13th, 2013