Fracking: It’s economics stupid
Today, at 6AM in a release barely more than a paragraph long, the Treasury announced that the British Geological Survey (BGS) had found 1300trn cubic feet worth of shale gas trapped in the rocks beneath Lancashire.
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On patriotism and national decline
Prioritisation of corporate wealth and privatisation have threatened our heritage and eroded our culture far more than immigration ever has
Ed Davey says ‘don’t let Nigel Farage turn the UK into a version of Trump’s America’
The Lib Dem leader used his closing conference speech to slam Farage’s vision or Britain
The war on net zero: how political climate consensus fell apart
Today, net zero is no longer a unifying goal, it’s a political dividing line. Its biggest threat is manufactured outrage and political cowardness.
Are climate politics about to go into reverse?
The rise of climate-sceptic populist figures both in the UK and abroad, puts climate action at risk of being side-lined in favour of regressive, anti-environmental politics that could undo years of hard-fought progress.
How the right lost interest in climate change
As right-wing populist movements gain ground, we’re witnessing a deliberate undermining of climate science and policy at a time when extreme weather events, such as floods that claimed hundreds of lives in Spain and hurricanes that ravaged communities in Florida, confirm the need for urgent and bold action.
The tentacles of the Atlas Network: Progressive politicians beware…
As the Atlas Network and its affiliates pose a clear threat to meaningful climate action, Starmer should be wary of any association with them or their ideological allies.
Ed Miliband blasts Tory London mayoral candidate as a ‘flat earther’
‘It would empower and embolden the anti-net zero, flat-earth brigade across the world’
Who is Jim Ratcliffe, the pro-Brexit billionaire promised €700m from UK government to build ‘carbon bomb’ in Europe?
Environmental campaigners warn that Ratcliffe’s controversial ‘Project One’ will bring ‘US-scale plastic production to Europe.’
Who are Reform UK and where did they come from?
From Brexit Party to ‘Make Britain Great again’, how the Reform Party progressed