Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/debates/copenhagen_article/9825 It has been an annus horribilis for the environmental activists and politicians who insist that the world needs to act on climate change. There was ‘Climategate’, the...
What Next for the Royal Society?
In May this year, the UK’s science Academy, the Royal Society, announced that it was going to publish a “new guide to the science of climate change to help the public gain a better understanding of the issue.” This announcement appeared to follow in the wake of a...
Pastiche Politics: Redux
The previous post on this blog looked at the bizarre relationship between former Labour government minister (now Labour Party leader) Ed Miliband, and the 10:10 founder and Age of Stupid director, Franny Armstrong. One of the most curious things that this uneasy...
8 Executions and a Funeral
Ed Miliband -- the previous government’s Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change -- has been elected leader of the Labour Party. Hmm. This is unusual. Not only is Miliband relatively young for someone hoping to convince the voting public...