Anti-15 minute city protests are just the latest bump in the road to Sustainability
Twenty years ago I found myself attending a community engagement event on Teesside about renewable energy. A woman told us that she had been to...
Britishvolt: A Green Business is NOT a Charity
Jan 23, 2023
And so the Britishvolt EV battery startup has died a big messy public death, as I predicted. Not because of any particular skill on my...
Net Zero Review Reaction: Excuses, Excuses
Jan 16, 2023
The Government has published its 'Net Zero Review'. This had its genesis in the short, turbulent reign of Liz Truss as a way of kicking...
Sustainability in 2023: My ‘Predictions’
Jan 9, 2023
For a few years, every January an environmental website used to ask me for my predictions for 2023. I never liked doing it as I...
So, just how Green is Rishi Sunak?
Nov 1, 2022
I've never seen political turbulence like it – three UK Prime Ministers in a couple of months. But now Rishi Sunak has taken the helm...
What is Just Stop Oil trying to achieve?
Oct 17, 2022
On the face of it, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) spin-off Just Stop Oil and I agree on our goal: a rapid end to the fossil...
Sustainability at the Party Conferences
Oct 10, 2022
As a political geek, every year I watch the leaders' speeches from all the major UK political party conferences. And every year I post a...
Green Queen (and King)
Sep 12, 2022
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...