I was asked to speak to the Cross Party Group on Sustainable Energy in the Welsh Senedd (parliament) yesterday. I had already done so in
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The pretence that we’re going to have a V shaped recovery should be consigned to the bin: now is the time for radical economic action to save jobs
Even the government is admitting that we are now facing a very difficult winter. It is very obvious that coronavirus has not been beaten. The
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Almost irrelevant of age, sex, class or ethnicity – people want a fairer, greener, more community-oriented future
As Matthew Taylor has noted in the Guardian: The British public backs an ambitious transformation of the UK into a greener, fairer more equal society
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The Tax Research videos
I began making videos with Mark Cooney of Spotted in Ely about three months ago, and this list of those we’ve made has grown pretty
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Government is very different when it’s not run for the benefit of landlords
It’s interesting to see how different government is if it is not run to serve the interests of landlords. I suspect that very few people
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If we don’t uphold Extinction Rebellion’s right to speak out next they will come for us
I am a signatory to this letter on Extinction Rebellion that is in The Observer today. I am well aware that there will be accusations
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Is Greta Thurnberg right?
Is it true that we’ve made no progress on climate change in the past two years as Greta Thurnberg has claimed? I fear that it
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Renewables pay
The government has just revised its official estimates of the cost of electricity generation, again. According to Carbon Briefing these are the new estimates, with
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Green infrastructure could pave a way out of crisis
Having had a letter in the Guardian today with me, Colin Hines also has one on a fairly similar theme in the FT: Letter: Green
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