I found myself utterly bemused by this tweet: https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/1692055830911177209?s=66&t=fQEnD35XLiGihXLT1M1wyA I know that Brexit was used to give the elderly the chance to well and truly
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Why has government funding for renewables run into a brick wall?
As the FT notes this morning: Swedish developer Vattenfall spent years developing plans for almost 140 turbines across a 725km-squared patch [of the North Sea
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A feast of fools
My old friend Alan Simpson, who was a Labour MP when we first met, sent me this over the weekend. I thought it worth sharing,
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Carbon capture and storage
I have never believed in carbon capture and storage. I doubt I ever will. I do, however, believe in government capture. So do the makers
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The present is unsustainable. Oil and banking have made it so. Something is going to have to change.
The Bank of England meets this week to consider raising interest rates, yet again. The consensus of opinion is that they will do so by
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Sunak is turning up the heat and the anger may be hard to constrain
There was always going to be a moment when the far-right would try to mount a backlash against the inevitable progress of the climate change
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The British public is fully behind ambitious green growth
As the FT noted this week in an article from the always interesting John Burn-Murdoch: It’s not often these days that one thinks of Britain
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It’s time pension funds accepted the reailty of climate change
A new report for Carbon Tracker on pension funds, their investment decision making and climate change written by Steve Keen is introduced by Carbon Tracker
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Most people in the UK think the theat from climate change is really serious. So why are politicians pandering to the minority who do not?
This is from IPSOS Mori today: Seventy-seven per cent of people in this country think climate change is a serious threat. At the same time,
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