A week ago I posted here on the Scottish currency issue, in the context of a stooshie (English: kerfuffle) I had created when commenting on
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COP 26 failed. We need not. But w have to get on with beating the forces that want to kill life in earth. Time is not our side.
I admit that I have been struggling to find appropriate words to write since it became apparent that COP26 really would not deliver anything like
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The Green New Deal is about unification around a new vision of society
This letter from my fellow Green New FDeal Group members, Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, was in the Guardian today, referring to the
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What will make the neoclassical economist realise that there is something more important than market equilibria, and that is life itself?
Chris Giles said this in the FT this morning: Here is a simple question. Has the UK economy already recovered all of the ground lost
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The great success of the Green New Deal is in getting people to believe in it
Aditya Chakrabortty had this to say about an article he wrote for the Guardian yesterday: The column that will probably lose me the most friends:
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It is but a short step from The Telegraph’s article on children dying from Covid to something very sinister indeed.
I am far from alone in being horrified by the Telegraph article and headline, summarised in the Tweet: The reality is that 108 children have
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“Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”
I rather liked this response to a Tweet I posted last night: That is Sam West, the actor. Ane the cartoonist, Tom Toro, then tweeted
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Greenwash will not do: proper accounting for the impact of the climate crisis is what we need now
This is an FT headline this morning: The article makes three things clear. The first is that business feels good about itself. The second is
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How corrupt is the UK?
Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that the UK is not remotely corrupt. The guffaws of disbelief could be heard all around the press conference to which
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