Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
In 2010, demand better
British democracy has three problems. The vast majority of votes make no difference to who forms the government. The system persuades governments to go for short term wins at long term cost. Many politicians believe, or have believed, that you can get away with it. Actually, we don't have to have any of these things, and in 2010, we are in a [...]
Both wrong on marriage
The Tories are promising tax-breaks for married couples, which Harriet Harman has described as 'hypocritical moralising'. But both are in fact wrong -- Harman for her notion that 'Families won't want to be lectured by anybody about how to lead their lives', with the implicit underlying assumption that all forms of family are equally functional, [...]
Nonetheless, tomorrow we must vote on the issues
Tonight is pre-election night. Tomorrow, county and Euro elections. Which means not one person who has been implicated in MP expenses is standing. To be sure, MEPs have been questioned about their expenses in the past, most notably UKIP, whose value to the taxpayer in terms of cost for work done is lamentable. Westminster must be reformed, [...]
Challenging climate change education is not the answer
BBC NEWS | Education | Law challenge to Gore school film A father from Kent is challenging in the courts a DfES decision to send copies of Al Gore's Oscar winning film on Climate Change to every secondary school in England. 'An inconvenient truth' is, by its nature, a political film, but DfES points to a clear scientific consensus on global [...]
