Thank you TCV – 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 – 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 “a burning platform” to hold their attention. And then added: “If 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 “ESG’s poster child” is in full-on retreat, or...
I was in Hereford last week (9th August) to take part in a vigil for Cressie Gethin, one of the “Whole Truth Five” who were handed down draconian sentences by Judge Christopher Hehir on July 17th for their part in planning a demonstration on behalf...
Here’s a sorry little aviation story. Once upon a time, a guy called Christopher Luxon, seeking a career uplift after many a long year selling detergents and mayonnaise for Unilever, became CEO of Air New Zealand. Ten years ago, seeing serious...
I'm loving the Ed Miliband Show! The curtain went up on July 5th, and it's been one reveal a day since then. Leader writers at the Telegraph and Mail have already run out of manufactured rage; Clare Coutinho is (Shadow Secretary of State at DESNZ)...
Yesterday was indeed “a dark day for peaceful environmental protest in the UK”, as the UN's Special Rapporteur on environmental defence, Michel Forst, put it. A very dark day. The outrage has been widespread. The disproportionality of the sentences...
It is, truly, too depressing to have to witness Trump's re-ascendancy, compounded equally by the utterly despicable attempt on his life and by Biden’s accelerating descent into senility. Exactly when the whole of humankind most needs the USA...
