I think we can all agree that warfare is bad for the environment. Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare would be utterly disastrous, but conventional warfare is massively destructive too. Just look at the vast amounts of oil being burned or spilled in current conflicts. Look at the huge swathe of eastern Ukraine – Europe’s bread basket – destroyed by the […]
Sprawl’s Silver Jubilee
Given this country’s propensity for bad policy to flow out of Whitehall, I sometimes wonder if we should have jubilees celebrating the moment long-term destructive policies were launched. It’s coming up to the 25 year Silver Jubilee of John Prescott’s defenestration and destruction of his powerful Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, following the 2001 general election. A […]