I was at a meeting of the Green New Deal Group in parliament last night. Let me leave aside the increasing absurdity that I feel
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You no longer need to be paranoid to think the government are coming for you when they most probably are.
This might well be the best commentary I have read on Sunak’s announcement yesterday. To put this in context, Caroline Slocock was Thatcher’s private secretary.
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Unless we put the UK’s wealth to work for social purposes we really are in very deep trouble
I have noted a report in the Guardian this morning which suggests that Southwark Council is seeking to raise £6 million of crowd-sourced funding over
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We desperately need a Green New Deal and our power elites would rather ignore that fact
As the Guardian’s morning comment newsletter says in its introduction this morning: Houses in the UK are some of the oldest and least energy efficient
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Have we reached the point of irreversibility?
Have we passed a tipping point? El Niño has something to do with this, but let’s not pretend that chart is anything but scary. Although,
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Labour’s ideological vacuum
As Larry Elliott has noted in The Observer today: After last week’s emasculation of its green prosperity plan, [Labour’s] storyline has changed. It now reads:
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Clive Lewis MP is standing up for the Green New Deal
I post this from Twitter (X) knowing that not everyone here can or wants to view that sire, but if you do, this is worth
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Labour is claiming that £28 billion of investment in climate change a year is not possible. But that’s not true. That’s Starmer’s choice.
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Labour says it cannot now afford to spend £28 billion a year to deliver the investment in
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Labour abandons hope
After what appears to have been an eternity of dithering today, Labour is finally announcing that it has abandoned its pledge to spend £28 billion
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