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Chris Rose (You can also download this blog as a pdf) I have to confess that for the past several years, something has been worrying me about stories. Not stories in general: like everyone I guess, I love stories. It’s … Continue reading →

Chris Rose 4 12 15 With the Paris Climate Conference in full swing it is a little late to be publishing new data on public perceptions but in case you delegates and NGOs are stuck for something to read, here … Continue reading →

Last week I heard Craig Bennett, Director of Friends of the Earth (FoE, England and Wales) talking about the importance of the “power of doing” in campaigns. (He was at the Directory of Social Change Conference, ‘Campaigning and Lobbying in … Continue reading →

update 25 11 15 Martina Römmelt-Fella is a Bavarian engineering boss and leader of an initiative of small and medium sized businesses critical of TTIP.  She cites lack of control on cancer pesticide pesticide Captan,  allowing GM in dairy feed … Continue reading →

Amazingly, VW is managing to dig itself into an even deeper hole.  So deep that perhaps campaigners are losing sight of it altogether ?  Tonight a British Conservative MP declared that VW ‘deserves to suffer damage‘.  Politicians know that the … Continue reading →

It’s a fair bet that VW HQ has recently been teeming with lawyers and ‘reputation recovery consultants. ‘CAR’ is the conventional post-disaster communications advice for corporations (indeed for anyone), and it stands for: Concern Action Reassurance in that order. So, … Continue reading →

There seem to be some big things that Britain’s media and political classes don’t get about the new Labour Party Leader, Jeremy Corbyn and his ‘kinder politics’.   One is that they are judging him as a politician but he’s acting … Continue reading →

In Part 1 I suggested green-lighting renewables, a ‘demand side’ suggestion.  Here’s a supply-side suggestion. There’s something very big that’s not going to be on the table at the Paris climate talks but which cries out for action, and that’s … Continue reading →

Politically, you could say things look terrible for the December Paris Climate Summit.   Europe is looking the other way, towards its refugee crisis. Germany, in most ways Europe’s model for what can be achieved on climate change, is at the … Continue reading →

Britain’s response to the refugee crisis seems under-pinned by the idea that ‘Britain is full’.  There are no rooms to spare for refugees.  Is this really the case ?  There do seem to be some places with a lot of … Continue reading →