Columnists
Wera Hobhouse MP: Sustainable aviation fuel is “a game changer for the future of green transport”
'One of the biggest obstacles to decarbonising the aviation industry is the amount of jet fuel being used per flight.'
We must make the moral and pragmatic case for ending child poverty
Child poverty doesn’t just mean having less opportunities and less access to goods and services growing up. Its effects are long term and in many cases last a lifetime.
The government has stolen the right to strike from millions of workers
The conscription of workers is an abuse of state power and the government is openly pursuing anti-worker policies.
First, Selby and Ainsty. Then, Mid Bedfordshire. Rural communities are no longer Tory heartlands.
The next election offers an opportunity for Labour to persuade rural Britain to back them in considerably larger numbers.
Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights
'The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.'
We need to get real about the risks and possibilities of self-driving cars
'If you put self-driving into the equation, you potentially massively increase the climate impacts.'