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 life...
Tom Herbert, baker and entrepreneur, is right: environmentalists seem to be a lot more focussed on ways of growing food locally and sustainably, to contribute to the balanced diets that we need, than they are on how best to make this food available...
I sometimes fantasise about MRCs – Mandatory Reading Commitments– for a pre-designated category of “people of influence” here in the UK: politicians (including all would-be politicians), business leaders, the commentariat (in all shapes and sizes)...
Last week there were two powerful reminders of the frontline role of conservationists in today's troubled world.First, the ever-more remarkable Whitley Awards, which I was lucky enough to attend on May 1st. 6 winners (from Guyana, Papua New Guinea...
In a nutshell, this is the dilemma that energy giant Drax now faces: The case against burning wood pellets to generate electricity appears, on the surface, to be getting stronger and stronger all the time.The case in favour of capturing emissions of...
At some point over the next couple of months, Chief Sustainability Officers will be making decisions and recommendations about this year's CoP in Azerbaijan at the end of the year. My advice to them: spare yourselves the hassle. Just don't send...
