Ignore the mainstream media hype. As Michael Bloomberg officially enters the 2020 race, he’s not the climate champion he claims to be.
By focusing on superficial tropes about the environment, it’s hard to see how the debate will have helped undecided voters distinguish between the parties.
Transcending the tribalism of party politics is a laudable aim. But during the most important election of a generation, blind neutrality is absurd.
It’s time to abandon development and think about postdevelopment instead.
XR should focus its pressure on disrupting the government, and on polluting companies and the banks that fund them.
Calculating the exact cost of decarbonisation is impossible. But one thing is clear: the price of inaction is far higher.
Most opposition parties recognise how serious climate breakdown is. The Tories’ record shows they don’t. The others could do something about that.
The IFS is treated with reverence by much of the UK media. But like all research, its analysis suffers from the ‘streetlight’ effect.
With less than two weeks to go in the election campaign, ignorance about the public debt is still clouding the debate.
The Conservative Party used to look after big, nationwide businesses. Now it serves a finance industry based in a few small areas of the capital.
Far from taking back control, Britain has clearly entered into a relationship where we hold none of the cards.