Who should we believe?

Parliament’s  Climate Change Committee published two progress reports last  Thursday, showing the UK lagging behind on its key goal of 78% cuts to greenhouse gases by 2035 and making recommendations on how to get back on track.  Lord Deben, the committee chairman, said: “The...

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Good eh

If you want to make money and make people grovel at the same time international debt is really great. The economies of poor debtors will collapse unless they borrow more so they have to keep on borrowing paying more...

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A death knell

The Australian trade deal is a death knell, not in itself but because it is a signal that in the Government's thinking Brexit is more important than climate and we are not going to take the all-out climate action...

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There is no God beyond the sky There is no God somewhere beyond the sky.  But there is a creative intellectual force deep within the universe.  Most ordinary people like me have at last got round to accepting that the universe began...

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