A lot of hooey is talked about the costs of implementing the Kyoto Protocol. Opponents bandy around figures in the many hundreds of billions of dollars, with no reference to
A new ingredient is being stirred into the election. Determined campaigners are using of Britain’s first-past-the-post constituency system, to try and swing seats their way. Two are VoteOK and
Tom Burke of E3G has spent years observing government, industry and others at close quarters. He defines "the dynamics of denial" like this:
There isn’t a problem.
On 20 April the Dana Centre at The Science Museum in London hosts The Clash of Crises as part of an exploration of the biggest fears people have for the
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has "intervened in the [UK] election campaign", reports the Independent on Sunday, calling on voters to give politicians electoral incentives to tackle
On 8 April, Senator James M. Inhofe (R. Okla), delivered the first of four speeches on climate change on the floor of the US Senate. A transcript of the speech
Manifestoes are body language before content: an attitude, a spirit, as well as an approach. Having spotted the missing word in my previous blog, here is a closer comparison of
openDemocracy’s article series on Iran is making some waves in the blogosphere, and it seems to be mainly pro-military invasion bloggers who have latched on to it (at least
Over here in the UK, we've not had a Freedom of Information Act for all that long. Although the act itself was passed in 2000, it didn'
eBay might be earnestly taking down auctions from disillusioned members of the UK electorate trying to turn their vote into a hard cash, but that hasn't stopped this
What word is missing from all the party political manifestos? What all-shaping, decisive political word, cannot be found in them at all?
No one in the openDemocracy office could guess,
“Cool Britannia is not a term I have ever used”, Tony Blair claimed last Friday – forgetting that he had used the dread phrase only five days earlier in an article
