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Coalition closes off Britain’s renewable future
According to the press, the junior Coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, are about to cave in (what a surprise!) to Conservative pressure for severe cuts to existing subsidies for wind farms. The...
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Post #100
This is post number 100 on ThePoliticalIdealist.com. I would say that this blog has been invaluable in helping find, and be a part of, an inspiring network of political thinkers, students, scientists,...
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Time Is Running Out
Arctic Landscape (Photo credit: Polar Cruises) _ Climate Change is a phenomenon that most of us like to spend a few minutes worrying about, but it has fallen low down the political agenda over the past...
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Flashback: A Look at Carbon Rationing
It is plain to see that Climate Change has slipped off the agenda of late. When societies around the globe are struggling with austerity, wars, recessions and depressions, a climatic catastrophe that...
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Americans Lose Out Again Over Deepwater Horizon
BP = Brown Pelican (Photo credit: kbaird) BP- or “British Petroleum” (the US government insisted on referring to the multinational by its defunct predecessor’s name)- endured so many problems as a...
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Please Adjust Your Thermostats Now
At the end of March, Britain was quietly warned that, due to exceptionally high demand for gas during the unexpected cold snap, and minimal reserves of gas being maintained (on the 22nd, the UK had...
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Why The Green Party Can’t Win
Green Party of England and Wales (Photo credit: Wikipedia) _ The Green Party is regularly on the cusp, it seems, of changing Westminster politics forever. The electoral breakthrough for the left-wing...
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The Flip Side of Globalisation
I dedicate this post to a friend who is taking part in a very important meeting today. Earlier this week, I theorised that climate change and the scarcity of fossil fuel resources might, in the coming...
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A Little Closer to Destruction
Yesterday, British MPs voted down a Bill that would have made the country a world leader. This prudent item of legislation would have been interpreted as a challenge to the rest of the European Union,...
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America Finally Acts on Climate Change
It pains us environmentalists that the world’s second biggest polluter and most influential nation has barely conceded that climate change is a real phenomenon, and that those Americans who do clutch...
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Fox Hunting Ban Unpicked
The Coalition Government is to hold a free vote on overturning the ban on fox hunting introduced by Labour in 2004. Conservative backbenchers have been eager to lift the ban, which had been a pet hate...
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Stand Up For Ben and Jerry’s
Ben and Jerry’s, an American brand operated by the Anglo-Dutch owned Unilever, was on the receiving end of a boycott call from an Australian politician this week. (What a globalised society we live...
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