Trebles all round! The Outer M25 is back

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 […]

Milestones or millstones?

Who said history never repeats itself? In Whitehall, Gordon Brown was known as “the Great Clunking Fist”. Now, in his “Plan for Change” speech last Thursday, Sir Keir Starmer promised that his plan would “land on desks across Whitehall with the heavy thud of a gauntlet being thrown down”. He promised his “mission-led government” would be dynamic, more decisive, more […]

The end of abundance

French president Emmanuel Macron made a speech on Wednesday that was little reported on this side of the Channel – which is a shame, because it may mark the beginning of a tidal change in western politics. Speaking at the French Cabinet, he warned that the tough economic times to come could mark the world facing a possible “end of […]