Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news….
Climate Change
Fed up constituents set up ‘Steve Baker Watch’ over MP’s climate stance
‘People in High Wycombe have had enough of MP Steve Baker, his uncaring attitude to his constituents & his work with climate-denying cronies’
Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast: 5 takeaways from the latest episode
A roundup of the Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast
Tory MP Craig Mackinlay hires staff linked to climate denial group
Mackinlay has hired two members of staff linked to Net Zero Watch
Tory chair to deliver speech at radical right Heritage Foundation which denies climate change science and is linked to voter suppression group
The Heritage Foundation is also linked to the Heritage Action for America, which has bragged about supporting voter suppression across the country.
Will Nigel Farage start another referendum campaign – this time on climate change?
Nigel Farage is being urged by right wing campaign groups to head a campaign against the government’s Net Zero policies in a new referendum.
‘While the circus over parties, cakes and flat refurbishments continues the climate crisis only gets worse’
‘The Glasgow Climate Pact needs to move “from words on a page” to a lived reality’
Baroness Jones: The impacts of government corruption on climate change
‘Between July 2019 and March last year, Ministers had 63 meetings with fossil fuel and bio-mass producers.’
Tory MPs use energy price hikes to argue for more drilling of oil and gas from North Sea
In a letter to the Telegraph, the MPs ‘appeal for a new approach to energy security’,
10 of the most prominent protest campaigns that defined 2021
It has been a year of major protests and unrest, illustrative of the staying power of many movements and the increasing grievances about those in power.