Durban’s a letdown, Canada’s a dropout, and Russia’s leaking methane
Alex Hern rounds up the latest news from the Durban climate change sujmmit, and the latest environment news from around the world.
Alex Hern
Website Alex graduated St Peter's College, Oxford, in 2011 and is a former Parliamentary researcher. He is currently working as Left Foot Forward's intern. Alex is an avid comic aficionado and critic. You should follow him on twitter.
Grim economic news II: OECD cut UK growth prediction. Again
Alex Hern follows up yesterday’s economics round-up with another day of bad news. This time the OECD and Fitch have joined in, both predicting a slow-down.
More grim news: Economists predict UK will be back in recession in 2012
Alex Hern reports on the projection that the British economy will fall into recession in 2012.
Nazi party Tory is sorry you were offended
Alex Hern covers the fallout from Tory MP Aidan Burley’s attendance of a Nazi-themed stag party.
The view from abroad: The day Britain locked itself out
Alex Hern rounds up the press responses, both here and overseas, to David Cameron locking Britain out of EU decision making for a generation.
What are Clegg’s yellow lines?
Alex Hern examines whether there are any areas left for the Liberal Democrats to hold firm on – or have they compromised on every policy going?
A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales – to sleazebag lobbyists
Alex Hern reports on sleazebag lobbyists Bell Pottinger’s vandalism of Wikipedia, and Jimmy Wales’s personal appeal to them to stop it.
Rick Perry doesn’t understand logic
Alex Hern covers Rick Perry; he remains, ineluctably, Rick Perry.
Malcolm Rifkind: Nadine Dorries doesn’t live in the real world
Alex Hern highlights the spectacle that was Nadine Dorries ‘debating’ Malcolm Rifkind on Newsnight.
Cameron ignores evidence literally in front of his face
Alex Hern reports on Ed Balls’s active background role in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, and his canny prepared graph.