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Can we rely on UK journalists and the BBC to grasp even the basics of the threat posed by climate induced sea-level rise ? It seems not. Take this exchange on BBC Radio Norfolk, yesterday evening, 13 May. (For UK … Continue reading →

A recent Fairyland Trust survey reported that 85.2% of Britons agreed “it is vital to introduce young children to nature”. On the face of it, this seems good news for groups such as those involved with this year’s National Children’s … Continue reading →

Chris Rose   chris@campaignstrategy.co.uk A nationally representative survey (N=2000, representative by age and sex) was conducted for the Fairyland Trust www.fairylandtrust.org in December 2013, as part of the British Values Survey run by Cultural Dynamics Strategy and Marketing, CDSM [1]. The … Continue reading →

Bryony from 38Degrees and I handed in the petition to the BBC. Hello – a recap on what happened. Bryony from 38 Degrees and I handed in the petition. Over 1400 signed it in the end.  The BBC never did … Continue reading →

Slowly, year on year, Britain has been losing its Nightingales but as so few of us ever hear them, very few people will have noticed.  The BBC once brought the song of the Nightingale to the nation, with its first … Continue reading →

What motivated people to do #nomakeupselfie   ?  It went big on twitter and on facebook as women posted pictures of themselves without make-up, to support cancer charities. #nomakeupselfie engaged millions and hit the UK national news.  It also spread beyond … Continue reading →

With European Elections due to take place within weeks, and a UK General Election looming on the political horizon, British politicians and press talk a lot about ‘values’ but they rarely have any measurements of values to inform the ‘conversation’.   … Continue reading →

The UK is currently suffering significant flooding, following unprecedented rainfall.  The climate-sceptic newspaper the Daily Mail has begun a petition, closely aligned to the demands of the anti-European party UKIP, to recall UK Overseas Aid to help the flood British … Continue reading →

Transcript – Shaun Keaveny BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03np79z – from 01 hrs 55 mins  9 January 2014 “Just quickly though, a bit of news … extreme weather events … I’m sure it’s all coincidence and there’s nothing to worry … Continue reading →

Was this the moment when the tragedy of climate change finally made landfall in the corridors of climate politics ? The BBC has reported, ‘Typhoon prompts ‘fast’ by Philippines climate delegate’: delegates stood and cried and gave a standing ovation … Continue reading →