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...
The Green Party is still celebrating. After 14 years with just one MP at Westminster, it now has four, after a hard-fought win against Labour in Bristol Central, and two wins against the Tories (in North Herefordshire and Waveney Valley), whilst...
This time next week, we'll know what the political make-up of the UK will be for the next five years.
This time next week, we'll know whether the Green Party will have 1, 2, 3, 4 or zero MPs in the new Parliament.
What I really hate about this election-specific “debate” about immigration (over and above the customary but still sickening dishonesty) is the way it drives out any compassion, any empathy for all those caught up in the “need to move”, not just as...
Wednesday 5th June was World Environment Day. I thought I’d wait a couple of days to track the impact this has had on the major parties’ campaigns. Basically, SFA. The Climate and Nature emergency (as in runaway climate change and collapsing...
