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In our house, Mrs Thatcher gets a reasonably balanced obituary.  One persistent negative feature is regret that her policy of selling council houses – which we welcomed — was not balanced by an equivalent house-building programme to ensure a continuity...

Glory Be.  The DfE has published guidance for schools on sex and gender which says that schools must tell students that biological sex is a fact, whereas gender identity is merely a set of contested beliefs linked to the equally...

Thank goodness that's all over for another year.  How effective the meeting will prove to have been we shall see in time, but on balance I remain positive.  As good as might realistically have been hoped for, given all the...

The Government aims to install 600,000 heat pumps a year from 2028 as gas heating is phased out.  That is, it plans that the public will pay for and install these in their homes.  This is not going well despite...

In a recent Times article, Juliet Samuel argues that a "new modelling army is leading us astray", and that, "be it policy for lockdown, net zero or immigration, it must be ministers and not scientists or analysts who lead the...

Unabated – as in: "The UK position is clear – there must be a phase out of unabated fossil fuel [extraction and use] to meet our climate goal." This is clear if a bit arcane as unabated fossil fuel use...

This is part of what the PM said in his speech at COP28. "First, the world needs to do more to tackle climate change.  We’ve made real progress – including at the Glasgow summit but the climate science and mounting...

That is the question, if anyone actually cares. There must be a scratching of collective heads across Whitehall as to why an ignorant UK public still refuses to buy EVs.  Most current sales are for company car fleets rather than...

I’ve not mentioned the two giant pandas in Edinburgh zoo lately, and it’s almost too late as they are off home next week.  When they first arrived, the ticket sales must have exceeded the rent the zoo was paying (around...

I see that the Ministry of Eco Education is hosting an online panel discussion exploring Activism in Schools on Monday December 4th.  The event is "to enable young people, academics and educators to discuss the role of activism in education"...