The high price to pay for fuel
I wince as my gas and electricity bills arrive. It’s so expensive now, domestic heating, despite all the penny-pinching things to use less fuel I’ve done to keep our costs …
I wince as my gas and electricity bills arrive. It’s so expensive now, domestic heating, despite all the penny-pinching things to use less fuel I’ve done to keep our costs …
What will be the most important priority for the future well-being of both people and our planet? Making a transition from governance built around nation states to one with a …
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Green MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas writes in the Guardian today about being arrested for protesting against a fracking development in rural Sussex. Fracking is a new technology enabling …
It is well understood by now that the principal way to respond to the threat of climate change is to use less fossil fuel. When fossil fuels are burned, they …
This website is going to break the habit of many years and praise chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne. His economic policies may not be working out quite as planned, …
A piece in the Times (£) by Alice Thomson is the perfect illustration of how people’s horizons and thoughts about what can be achieved in politics are shaped by the …
By Ian Hackett This September, as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine (to name just a few countries, or not-quite countries, in or near the one-time cradle of …
A recent book illustrates neatly the problem of how difficult climate change will be to solve, given that different countries have starkly different interests at stake. “The burning question”, by …
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The world is getting better, writes Fraser Nelson in the Daily Telegraph today. Fitter, happier, more productive, or words to that effect. And he’s not entirely wrong. The global economy …
A discussion last night lamenting what had happened to the euro with professional colleagues from some other European countries (these are people with no particular connection with the pro-European case). …