Yesterday Member of Parliament Philip Davies re-tweeted a comment stating that the last minute high court reprieve for the families of Dale Farm was “absurd” I assumed he must have teporarily forgotten conservative family values and thought I’d better remind him. Apparently not. Ah, yes. The Conservatives other most important value – the rule of law. How [...]
Yesterday Eric Pickles told local authorities that they no longer need to ask questions about the sexual orientation, gender or ethnicity of the people who use public services. As the Daily Mail took great joy in pointing out, Islington residents “who want to join the municipal library have been asked to fill out forms asking [...]
For a while I’ve been working on a paper for peer review with Adam Corner of Cardiff university. We have just had it accepted and published in Global Environmental Change. The abstract is below and you can download the paper here. Abstract: Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing concepts and techniques to achieve [...]
This diagram connects British MPs and Lords with the “big six” energy companies. It visualises data from several sources to show which of our elected (and unelected) representatives are also working for the big energy companies. You can download the PDF file here. Click image to view full size pdf. Here are couple of interesting [...]
Lots of things remind us that the amount we consume cannot continue. Working the Freedom of Information requests for the outsourced emissions project with PIRC has thrown this into sharp relief and I’ve found myself thinking about this in a way that I haven’t for a couple of years. We obtained outsourced emissions projectections from [...]
This diagram connects every coal mine and coal power station with the company that owns it and the MPs and Lords who work for that company. You can download the the full diagram here. A couple of interesting observations from this diagram and data: 1. The two companies that own the largest number of mines [...]
The president of Kiribati – probably the most vulnerable of the Pacific island states- informed me over a curry and an overpriced Danish larger – that there was no point in returning to the climate change negotiations. We went back anyway. In the hope that he might be wrong and we would witness history being [...]
We need a new way of talking about benefits. The current language of “scroungers” and “spongers” stops us talking about why people end up on benefits. Crucially, it doesn’t allow us to talk about why some people in particular are on benefits. The distinction between benefit fraud and genuine claims is being blurred. This is [...]
This is an exchange between myself an the CPRE published in the Guardian. The first letter come from Justin Benton of the CPRE. We can cut emissions while conserving our landscapes and ecosystems. Fighting climate change is not only about energy – it’s about how we want our landscapes to look, work and be worked [...]
“I can’t do the sums any way without having a slice of nuclear power in the mix. It doesn’t work. I ask my enthusiastic green friends if they’ll do the sums – and they can’t” said Professor Ian Fells on Radio 4′s Today programme yesterday. As a stalwart member of the nuclear lobby it’s unlikely Fells [...]
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