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Governments fall more often from let-downs than lock-downs. That’s why Marcus Rashford’s ‘end child food-poverty’ campaign has thrown British politics into a tiz. Who would have thought a young, black footballer would provide the leadership politics seems to lack. Although Rashford consistently says “This is not about politics: it is about humanity,” everyone understands the…
Britain’s ‘4 week national lockdown’ will not halt the rate at which Tory pandemic planning falls apart. Privately, there are calls for a ‘Grand Coalition’, a Government of National Unity to save the country. For Labour (and Britain) it would be the Kiss of the Spider Woman; something to be avoided as much as Covid…
Are we the new Number 6? Don’t be under any illusions. This article offers no sanctuary for the advocates of ‘herd immunity’. As an answer to the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s a price too high. A colossal increase in death rates, and overwhelming the NHS, does not even bear thinking about. All the same, the growing…
The government’s educational omnishambles is stealing all the headlines at the moment. It pushes political incompetence to new limits. But behind the debacle lies a bigger crime. Boris Johnson is killing parliamentary democracy faster than the pandemic is killing people. And though Labour is immeasurably more virtuous, the Party struggles to lay a glove on…
Robin Hood Dies: the legend lives on As news hits the press about the imminent demise of Nottingham’s Robin Hood Energy company (RHE), I took a look at the plinth in front of St Mary’s church in the middle of Nottingham. The plinth offers a mythical version of Robin Hood’s demise; slowly being ‘bled’ to…
Tipping or turning: the choice is still ours We are in a bad place; a really bad place. The IMF predicts that the Covid pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5% this year, with a cumulative loss of around $9 trillion. Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) records a ‘lockdown’ economic collapse of over…
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.
Fuel duty freeze. Again. Cop out before COP26.
@BenPBradshaw. Ben. Do read my pamphlet on Rescuing the Green New Deal. Lots of economists are calling for taxation of the really wealthy. The pandemic has made them even richer. Funding a recovery has to start from there.
Sweden’s top daily national newspaper will no longer accept adverts for fossil fuel brands or high carbon products like flights and ICE cars, in recognition of the fact that the goal of these adverts runs directly counter to their editorial policy of support for climate action!
Really sad. You want to see the tram system it has helped finance. An absolute gem! Sorry Bristol.
What is it about Nottingham’s experience of introducing a Workplace Parking Levy that Bristol’s councillors are so scared of? https://t.co/qzTkmW1LsR
Succinct & powerful diagnosis of our global malaise by @DrMikeRyan https://t.co/8rrFQbLqIy
The first photos transmitted from Perseverance on Mars. Unbelievable.
👏👏👏🙏👏👏👏 Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules
Uber drivers are workers not self-employed, Supreme Court rules
The decision could mean thousands of Uber drivers are set to receive minimum wage and holiday pay.
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No one has the courage to say “Sorry folks. Broadmarsh has always been a disaster, used mainly to get through to the bus station (now gone). It was a mausoleum that died with the ‘shop til you drop’ obsession. We promise not to repeat the mistake.”...
@jonathansc @nottingham4war1 @TheSarahManton @InvestInNottm @PenneyP @AlanSimpson01 @Nottswildlife That’s the joy of architectural illustrations- everyone’s always smiling and everywhere crowded, no matter how grey, windswept, tacky, cheaply built, compromised, ill conceived, short-termist the reality. Can’t people see past the fake smiling faces to the architectural grimness.