According to Politico these are this morning’s London newspaper headlines: So, every major newspaper leads with the same issue. That is the government’s gamble on
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If the financial crisis and Covid were important enough for governments to do whatever it takes and find the money, then surely the climate and ecology crises demand a similar response.
Carline Lucas MP, the UK’s sole Green MP, had an article in The Independent yesterday with this title: Caroline Lucas’ concern is that there is
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Appeasement is not a policy that works with the far-right. History taught us that. How many times have we got to learn it again?
This is a headline from The Telegraph yesterday: There is every reason to think that the editors got to the actual article between it being
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If you aren’t extremely worried, you aren’t paying attention
I don’t by any means always agree with Paul Krugman, but that does not mean he cannot be right. Excepting his understatement of the risk
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Don’t Look Up is brilliant – ignore the critics
I wrote this on Twitter last night: New Year’s Eve and watched Don’t Look Up. Brilliant. Don’t believe the critics. But do despair for the
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I want HEPA filtration for 2022
I don’t usually do this, but I feel the need to share here some of what I wrote in my column for The National newspaper
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A year in data
As 2021 closes these are some blog stats. These were blog reads: I had massive traffic on Covid in 2020. That did not repeat, but
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Reasons to be pessimistic
This has been a difficult year. We all know that. Almost all of us will be wishing 2022 might be better. That, though, requires a
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Just suppose – and then what?
I know this is only a projection with lots of caveats in it, but just imagine…. Current polling projected onto the Provisional 2023 Boundaries* LAB:
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