This is my personal tribute to António Guterres, outgoing Secretary General of the United Nations. I have used more quotes from António Guterres, in speeches, articles, tweets, what have you, than from any other single human being. (I don’t...
On Sunday I'll be outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, holding up the same sign. Andy Burnham now has the chance to do what Keir Starmer never would: lift the proscription on Palestine Action
UNEP has finally admitted that 1.5°C is out of reach, and now offers us "coping and containment". Its fallback plan depends on nature soaking up our carbon, just as nature's carbon sinks start to fail. Little wonder young people are angry.
A Commons statement that names ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, yet says nothing of the genocide in Gaza, is not a reset. What Ed Miliband left unsaid matters far more than what he said.
Professor Nick Harvey spent three years operating in Gaza, and gave Ed Miliband a private account of what he saw. This is my letter asking the new Foreign Secretary what he intends to do about it.
A satirical letter from a newly-installed Labour Prime Minister to Zack Polanski, proposing they split the country's problems between them: the Greens take every difficult cause, Labour keeps the easy wins.
Our new Chancellor once ordered civil servants to bury a cost-benefit analysis showing a £705 million gain from energy efficiency. Nothing since suggests he's learned anything.
Eight weeks before the Labour Party conference, Andy Burnham faces the same moral dilemma that broke his predecessor. This is what he must now do.
From the Cockroach Janta Party in India to Nepal's electoral earthquake and Albania's Flamingo Revolution — young people are refusing to accept the betrayal of their future. The old talk of resignation; Gen Z is delivering revolution.
I've been called a "doom merchant" for fifty years. But refusing false hope isn't the same as dismissing real alternatives. Two thinkers show where genuine hope lives: in eudaimonia, not consumption.
