Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

About a month ago my local MP Sadiq Khan knocked on the door. Perfectly pleasant bloke. We chatted about the local hospital, the state of the Northern Line and his boss Gordon Brown. His parting words gently urged me to plump for Labour as in our constituency of Tooting it’s a ‘two horse race’. This [...]

So we are now 29 days away from the election. Fever would probably not be the most appropriate word to describe the atmosphere and anticipation across the land. More like mild flu.
However, now is certainly not the time for us to collectively shrug our shoulders, trot out the line that “they’re all the same” and [...]

Having got thoroughly depressed reading another thread on climate change off the back of an article in the Sunday Times, it was a delight, and an irony as it’s housed on the same site, to listen to comedian John Oliver riff on it on the Bugle podcast from last week:
Just reading up on these (climate [...]

It’s interesting to see how technology evolves at a seemingly inexorable rate whilst some basics still apply. So there’s all sorts of new tools and services we can dip into, but we usually tend to go back to things we find simple to use. We’re now in the era of the geek (according to the [...]

Is Twitter effectively now running my life? Well, from the events of this week the evidence is building up. From a tweet on the ubiquotous network on Wednesday morning by green PR lady Erica Grigg (@carbonoutreach or for non-Twitter fans her blog site) I gathered that scientist James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory, was [...]

How do you a solve a problem like George Monbiot? The activist and Guardian columnist has caused a right old stink this month by agreeing to taking part in a debate over the reality of climate change on the webpages of the Spectator site, then pulling out when the conditions he laid out for him [...]

Sometimes you leave an event brimming with ideas, energy and enthusiasm. Other times it’s exactly the opposite. I experienced the latter after wandering out of the Reboot Britain event yesterday. Billed as pointing the way forward for our beleaguered nation after a year or so of economic and political disarray I found it rather flabby [...]

I have something rather shocking to report. I went to see a dramatisation of climate change last week – a play called Resilience – which was eerily accurate, funny, pointed, powerful and moving. For me there’s always been a mixture of dread and guilt as one is presented with a documentary or fictional account of [...]

I got myself involved in an interesting thread on the FT site earlier in the week after a reading a column by management columnist Stefan Stern. Titled ‘The hot air of CSR’ Stern – I presume not related to Nicholas – provocatively dismissed Corporate Social Responsibility as ‘nonsense’, and that we van stop bothering to [...]

I had a very enlightening evening last week at the Royal Institution where author Richard Homes – who has written brilliant biographies of Shelley and Colderidge – gave a lecture. It was quite a magical occasion as the biographer offered an insight into his new book, The Age of Wonder. As he pointed out he [...]