Monthly Archives: September 2015

Jeremy Corbyn: What The Media and Political Classes Don’t Get

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

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Suggestions for Paris – Part 2 – Time To Put Fossil Fuels ‘Beyond Use’

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

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Two Climate Strategy Suggestions for Paris

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

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Anyone Got A Spare Room ?

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

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