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Mike Buckley

Local councils and net zero

Governments must stop encouraging fossil fuel companies to invest in new production sites

Mike Buckley
16 May, 2022 (2 weeks ago)

‘Scientists believe the world is increasingly likely to experience global warming of 1.5C within the next five years because of record greenhouse gas levels’.

Voting Ballot Box

Local Elections 2022: What can we expect?

Mike Buckley
3 May, 2022 (3 weeks ago)

Labour will need to take next week’s results in their stride. Yet there are trends to watch.

COP26

Mike Buckley: What Russia’s war on Ukraine could mean for the future of climate change

Mike Buckley
19 April, 2022

‘Ask any climate scientist, or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Getting the world off fossil fuels must be a much bigger priority than it is now.’

Ukraine

Mike Buckley: What would a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine look like?

Mike Buckley
16 March, 2022

‘Putin will suffer consequences enough, potentially costing his leadership. But for now, the priority must be ending the war as quickly and completely as possible.’

Von Der Leyen

Mike Buckley: European leaders are now looking beyond NATO for their own defence

Mike Buckley
4 March, 2022

‘The EU will define itself as a military actor, focused on its own defence and limiting Russian aggression.’

UK police

Crime will be a bigger policy issue at the next election, Labour can take a lead on it if it gets it right

Mike Buckley
18 February, 2022

Labour is right to make crime and policing a key battleground

Brexit anniversary

Brexit: ‘The case for divergence has in most cases not been made’

Mike Buckley
3 February, 2022

‘More consequential in the long run is Johnson’s rediscovered desire to push Brexit to its absolute limit, regardless of the consequences for the economy, British businesses or Britain’s relationship with our European partners.’

No Planet B

‘While the circus over parties, cakes and flat refurbishments continues the climate crisis only gets worse’

Mike Buckley
27 January, 2022

‘The Glasgow Climate Pact needs to move “from words on a page” to a lived reality’

Covid

Omicron is not a mild virus

Mike Buckley
7 January, 2022

‘What facts have been employed have been cherry picked to tell a hopeful story’

COVID

There’s a progressive way to live with Covid that includes protecting the most vulnerable

Mike Buckley
23 December, 2021

‘A public debate framed around ongoing restrictions versus an unacceptable right-wing conception of ‘living with the virus’ is therefore profoundly unhelpful.’

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