June 2, 2019
Our Next PM: a Guaranteed Climate Emergency in the Making!
This is going to be my last word on climate matters for a while – and only because I can’t stop myself thinking about what this country’s next Prime Minister will be doing to…
October 22, 2018
Natural Capital: New Zealand Raises the Bar
I had a rather wonderful experience on Friday, listening to three Ministers in the New Zealand Government, and a handful of New Zealand business leaders, helping to launch a new…
January 21, 2018
‘A Green Future’: Another 25 Years of Bland Platitudes?
So what are we to make of the lionising of Michael Gove by a host of people who really should know better? His speech to the Oxford Farming Conference, and his scripting of…
November 29, 2017
The State of American Democracy
How often have you heard something like this: ‘Well, the situation here in the UK may be dire, but things aren’t half as bad as they are in America!’ I’ve said it myself, mostly…
August 4, 2016
Hinkley Point, Greg Clark and the Fate of the Nation
On Friday last week, within a few hours of Greg Clark (Secretary of State at the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) announcing that the UK Government…
March 15, 2016
Beware the March of the Authoritarians!
Bit by bit, the true authoritarianism of this Government is revealing itself. Way back in 2011, in what now feels like the good old days, myself and Bethan Harris (a colleague in…
November 5, 2014
Infrastructure Bill
It becomes more and more mystifying why the passage of the Infrastructure Bill has attracted near zero coverage. It has already had around 10 days being debated in the House of…
May 8, 2014
My Review of SUSTAINEO 2030 by Farooq Ullah et al
Imagine the scene amongst the eager and idealistic employees of Stakeholder Forum. SF boss: “Ok guys, exactly what do we have to do to get people focussed on this governance…