ALAN SIMPSON
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If there are seminal moments in politics, Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the 2018 Labour Conference will go down as one of then. This was when the planet took centre stage.
It wasn’t the 130 forest fires raging across the USA that got to me, nor the UK’s moorland fires, the torrential storms hitting Belfast with 2 months rain in 2 hours, the lightning strikes that took out …
When I was a child there was a low wall not far from my nan’s house. It was lined with the nobbled ‘knuckles’ of what had once been an iron-railing fence.
It was one of the biggest infrastructure projects in human history. For much of the 1930’s, and at a cost of 3.3bn francs, France built itself a 900-mile network of tunnels, underground bunkers…
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.” (Greek proverb) Britain has 5.5 million men, and 6.5 million women, who are of pensionable age.
It is 4 years since the death of my friend and mentor, Tony Benn. I could argue that he turns up in every article I write, but that’s a poor substitute for the daily conversations into which he poured tea and optimism in equally copious quantities.
Transformation Moment
My pamphlet 'Transformation Moment' is intended to support the case for a radical shift in energy thinking; as much about democracy as technology, and about 'systems' rather than just supply.
Appalling that Ofgem should threaten the investigator who exposed corporate abuse of the scheme rather than the companies milking the system. Classic example of a system that stinks.
Millions 'misspent on green energy abuse'
Energy regulator Ofgem is accused of mismanagement by a whistleblower.
www.bbc.co.uk
So, if we're to avoid culling farmers as well we need to go back to the drawing board and look for a better plan
Farming industry to blame for TB crisis, not just badgers â report
Movement of cattle and poor fencing hamper control efforts, says government review
www.theguardian.com
saddest fact of the day is that the poet Wilfred Owen died precisely one week before Armistice Day
VINDICATED! @shahmiruk has won his wrongful dismissal case against TaxPayers Alliance. But this case reveals so much more. It confirms links between 9 shadowy organisations whose ‘spokespeople’ dominate the BBC. This cannot go on. ‘Spokespeople’ for who?
TaxPayersâ Alliance concedes it launched smears against Brexit whistleblower
Shahmir Sanni lost job and was falsely vilified as a fantasist and liar after revelations about Vote Leave spending
www.theguardian.com
At least the inflatable turned up for a rainy Remembrance Day. So much more reliable than the (un)real thing.
Hello Paris! Very great and Beautiful city (capital of europe they tell Me). But believe me it's no Mar-e-Lago. No sun. No golf. Lots to Teach the French!!
They may have laid down their lives so that others may be free but at least they were never called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice of going outside when it was raining a bit.
.@johnmcdonnellMP talking about the work he has asked @labourlewis and Bob Kerslake to do rewriting the Treasury Green Book rules so that all govt investment helps promote solutions to 1. climate change & 2. inequality & 3. democratic ownership & control of our economy
Let's be honest. This isn't 'political'. It supports/attacks no Party. It's 'crime is to attack commercial greed... today's unpardonable sin.
This Christmas advert has been banned from TV for being too political.
I think what's happening to our rain forests should be banned for being criminal to life on earth.
This needs to be the most viewed Christmas advert ever! Do your best Twitter!
Fine, but give farmers (reducing) annual carbon budgets to live within and then see/pay the wellbeing price each food choice brings with it.
What claptrap. Bacon is an important contributor to my wellbeing. #handsoff https://t.co/0qC5OWpplr
Look this private bus company malarkey just doesn’t work, OK? Communities need regular affordable bus services to be able to function, and this is best done by local municipalities. Great stuff from @AndyMcDonaldMP anyway