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Go, Ed, Go!

I'm loving the Ed Miliband Show! The curtain went up on July 5th, and it's been one reveal a day since then. Leader writers at the Telegraph and Mail have already run out of manufactured rage; Clare Coutinho is (Shadow Secretary of State at DESNZ) comes across as a bleating numpty, which is exactly…

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JUST STOP OIL ACTING FOR ALL OF US

Yesterday was indeed “a dark day for peaceful environmental protest in the UK”, as the UN's Special Rapporteur on environmental defence, Michel Forst, put it. A very dark day. The outrage has been widespread. The disproportionality of the sentences (five years for Roger Hallam, four years for Lucia…

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BANISH THOSE TRUMPIAN BLUES!

It is, truly, too depressing to have to witness Trump's re-ascendancy, compounded equally by the utterly despicable attempt on his life and by Biden’s accelerating descent into senility. Exactly when the whole of humankind most needs the USA committed to its sustainable future rather than its…

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The Green Party’s Path to 2029

The Green Party is still celebrating. After 14 years with just one MP at Westminster, it now has four, after a hard-fought win against Labour in Bristol Central, and two wins against the Tories (in North Herefordshire and Waveney Valley), whilst easily retaining Brighton Pavilion. This is a…

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DEMOCRACY AT WORK …. IN NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE!

This time next week, we'll know what the political make-up of the UK will be for the next five years. This time next week, we'll know whether the Green Party will have 1, 2, 3, 4 or zero MPs in the new Parliament.

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MIGRATION IN HOTTER TIMES: HUMANITY AT RISK

What I really hate about this election-specific “debate” about immigration (over and above the customary but still sickening dishonesty) is the way it drives out any compassion, any empathy for all those caught up in the “need to move”, not just as asylum-seekers, but even as economic migrants.……

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