Rhubarb-Rhubarb and Custard

First, the custard. Then, the rhubarb-rhubarb: Direct action historically has been a major way that we've got change. I mean, you can look at, historically, through the Suffragettes, through the miners' strikes, through all of the major changes. Yes, some of it is...

Only Happy When It Rains

Bizarrely, this week's episode of Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's BBC Radio 4 series Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's History of Home, in which celebrity interior designer and big, flouncy ponce Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the history of our homes from the 1920s to the...

Who Are the Real Climate Criminals?

If there's one thing that's supposed to annoy us British about Americans, it's their environmentally unfriendly ways. And not just George Bush and his Exxon-funded cronies. It's the whole lot of them – as highlighted by the recent ABC News poll where "global warming"...

What Else Won't the Greens do for us?

Back in February, we reported on the new plans for 'eco-towns' in the UK, to make up part of the housing shortage. We suggested that it was unlikely that even the eco-town-planners would actually go as far as to replace the sewage system with water-free composting...

Eco-Slums for Eco-Proles

You and Yours (a daily consumer affairs magazine on BBC Radio 4) ran a feature on Britain's planned "eco-towns", last Monday (yes, we're a bit behind at the moment). [podcast available here] The uk needs more homes. We also need to reduce our carbon emmssions, and the...

The Treachery of Speeches

Surrealist politics from UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron: The issue we're discussing today, and the subject of the policy document we're publishing, is decentralised energy - again an issue on which Greenpeace has a distinguished campaigning track record....