In response to the alarming news that 2024 was the hottest year ever and January 2025 the hottest January on record, Keir Starmer's solution is to double down on nuclear energy as a means to achieve instant economic growth. Meanwhile, Ed Miliband...
Yesterday was a good day. Over 1000 people blocked the road outside the High Court in The Strand, in solidarity with 16 Just Stop Oil protesters inside the court, appealing against their excessive sentences β adding up to a combined 41 years for...
The shadow cast by Trump’s second presidency is so overwhelming that the shadow cast by the Starmer/Reeves government over the last few weeks has gone inadequately remarked upon. In both countries, social injustice is killing people on a grand...
Earlier in the week, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change brought out a new report grandiloquently titled: βRevitalising Nuclear: The UK Can Power AI And Lead The Clean Energy Transitionβ. In essence, it’s little more than a re-run of...
TIDAL POWER β THE UKs βGIFT OF GODβ Somewhat insensitively, Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, focused his opening address at CoP29 (which his country is hosting) on how immensely grateful he and his fellow citizens are for the astonishing βGift...
Thank you TCV β for dragging me out of this slough of despond in which I found myself! On Tuesday, I attended TCVs Heroes Awards ceremony in Edinburgh, celebrating TCVs 65th Anniversary and honouring 4 out of 1300 local initiatives established and...
Highlighting and undoing the ruinous 14-year Tory legacy will run and run β it’s the gift that keeps on giving for Labour, even if it’s already a bit irksome. But journalists are picky about which bits of the legacy they want to see...
Yesterday was United Nations day. I spent a fair part of it sitting outside the Ministry of Justice where the Attorney General is based. The Ministry has various justice-relevant historical statements emblazoned on its windows, including John...
I could have wept when a good friend of mine suggested a few days ago that world leaders just weren’t focused on climate change because we didn’t have enough of βa burning platformβ to hold their attention. And then added: βIf you see...
Unilever announced its half-year figures on July 25th. Looking good, with shareholders apparently very happy. Unilever's stakeholders not so much, as they try and work out if the company, once dubbed as βESGβs poster childβ is in full-on retreat, or...
