I sat in a Battersea church last night listening to an erudite sermon on the future of humanity from Lord Patten of Barnes. The former Tory party chairman fits the bill more as a wise pastor rather than a thrusting over-ambitious politician, but that doesn’t mean his sharpness of intellect and grasp of global issues [...]
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Ecobuild optimism tempered
After the heady mix of good feeling, good intentions and good looking technologies comes something of a hangover. It’s easy to get carried away with optimism after Ecobuild, such was the positivity on display. UK Green Building Council chief executive Paul King fed on this during a speech on the first day, piggy-backing on the [...]
On optimism
Sundays are largely for relaxing, eating, walking, watching sport…. and scaring yourself silly by reading the news and comment sections of your preferred newspaper. Mine, as any self respecting woolly liberal would have it, is the Observer. So I was presented yesterday with some wrist-slitting examples when I finally got to said section (after escapism [...]
