As the Guardian has reported this morning, the government’s headline plan for greening the UK’s housing stock is this: Ministers have unveiled plans for £5,000
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Is Boris Johnson provoking political violence?
I have just posted this on Twitter: I am deeply shocked by Johnson’s choice of language. He knows what the language of ‘shirts’ is all
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Do we have a legitimate government?
The Earthshot prizes: an exercise in royal greenwashing
I wasted an hour of my life watching the Earthshot awards last night. At least one prize should have been a case for venture capital,
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We have an economic crisis coming our way. Like our Covid and supply chain crises this will be made right here in the UK by the Tories.
Last week the Guardian noted that Rish Sunak was clearly wishing to deliver an austerity budget. As they noted this was a choice: Something has
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It’s OK to be angry. How else will we change the world?
I wrote this on Twitter yesterday: I thought there was some risk in saying this. The anti-angry brigade is everywhere right now. I am often
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We have a Covid crisis that is unlike that in any other country in Europe. It was made in Downing Street.
The UK has the worst Covid case rates in Europe now. This data from the FT has been widely shared on Twitter and so I
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90,000
I went over 90,000 Twitter followers. I know there are many regular readers here who do not do Twitter but I have to admit that
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Why we need action to tackle wealth inequality
Brave New Europe is a blog that regularly reposts material that first appears here, as it also reposts work from those writing on the sites
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