Green Queen (and King)
The Royal Family has long followed that tradition of upper-class British environmentalists who see no contradiction between saving wildlife and shooting it (Peter Scott, who...
Message to our next PM: Climate Cakeism Won’t Cut It
Sep 5, 2022
Here in the UK, the long, tedious slog to take over as Prime Minister from the disgraced Boris Johnson finally comes to an end today....
The killer question is: can we really afford fossil fuels?
Aug 30, 2022
In our high-carbon economy, everything is dictated by the cost of oil and gas. From an economic point of view, this was fine and dandy...
Brum, Brum, Brum
Aug 22, 2022
So, my first day back after a far-too relaxing fortnight's summer holiday. For the first week, we hired a narrowboat and explored a loop of...
Climate Change: What difference can I make on my own?
Aug 1, 2022
Regular readers will know that I often get into online arguments with those who believe that climate change is all the fault of 'neoliberalism' (whatever...
“Can we afford net zero?” is the last stand of the climate deniers
Jul 26, 2022
It has been really interesting, if somewhat depressing, watching the so-called debate over climate change evolve over the last 15-20 years. Given the basics of...
Week Two of ‘Who wants to be Prime Minister?’ – the net zero angle
Jul 18, 2022
So, we're now down to five candidates to be the UK's next Prime Minister and they've had two TV debates to show the wider population...
Whither the UK’s Net Zero Commitment?
Jul 11, 2022
As I've said before, one of outgoing UK PM Boris Johnson's few redeeming characteristics (in my opinion!) was his conversion away from 'lukewarmism' and commitment...
One person’s greenwashing is another’s jolly good thing (and vice versa)
Jul 4, 2022
I'm an early waker, but not so much of an early riser these days, so when I do wake, I tend put on the BBC...
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes…
Jun 27, 2022
At the weekend, I met up with a group of school friends to go and watch the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park (they were brilliant)....