Anyone who has watched roads lobby dinosaurs placidly munching on their trunk road contracts even as Comet Climate Change approaches the Earth will not have been surprised by the Government’s decision to approve the destructive Lower Thames Crossing The road will add £9 billion to the country’s pointless debt mountain, investment which could have been used for acutely needed sustainable […]

It’s funny, I searched in vain through Labour’s 2024 manifesto Change for any firm commitment to exterminate the country’s bat population, or at least any of the scarce, tiny, flying mammals that had the temerity to hinder Sir Keir Starmer’s passion to build “infrastructure” – but at least we knew what he regards as infrastructure. In his 2023 conference speech […]

Future generations – or current generations in fact – really aren’t going to look kindly on the current government’s “dash for growth”, not least because thousands of them will be left looking from the upper floors of homes built under the current push for fast construction of one-and-a-half-million homes. They’ll be confined there because all-too-predictable flood waters surround their houses […]

If any historians survive the environmental crises to come, they will look back on the political follies of the 2020s with horror. While the international rise of fascism mirrors many aspects of the 1930s, current economic fantasies are more reminiscent of the 1980s. The financial deregulation of that decade led directly to the 1990 and 2008 crashes, while that decade’s […]

Most sensible people see the horrific wildfires in Los Angeles as a clear symptom of climate change – a clear result of six months’ lack of rainfall in California and fires driven by stronger winds than usual. President-Elect Donald Trump, however, knows better. On his own social media platform, Truth Social, he blamed California governor Gavin Newsom for the challenges […]