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I've bought a "vegan nail brush" from a "leading British lifestyle brand" made with "pure cactus bristle" – Agave sisalana – from Mexico with a FSC birch base.  The alternative was plastic so I took the plunge.  It's very nice.  But, given...

For a change, I watched a nature programme on TV: the new David Attenborough series, Wild Isles.  It was as spectacular as promised, although I failed to see any coherence to it.  We flitted from video of life and death struggles:...

A friend reckons that green policies are about to be rumbled and the time is coming when the public, or perhaps a particularly well-connected, noisy part of it, will "rise up" and be counted.  He's not some Marxist shrill, just...

I watched Jonathan Ashworth MP on Channel 4 trying in vain to answer a question about how a new Labour government would manage to generate 100% of electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030. It is fair to say he struggled....

This has been the driest February for 30 years and the 8th driest since 1836. According to the National Drought Group, England is only one hot dry spell away from widespread drought conditions.  Clearly action is needed.  So, surely what...

Now that Jacinda Harden has shuffled off the political scene, and the Queen of Scots is following suit, that only leaves Greta Thunberg as the great progressive hope of the world. [ "progressive" as in overtly pressing a social justice agenda...

I've never participated in a debate at the Oxford Union.  I've not even been there, unlike the Cambridge Union which I visited once in the early 1970s to attend a debate on nature v nurture in relation to IQ.  The impact...

Phew!  Thank goodness I don't work at the University of St Andrews where Sally Mapstone, the VC, who has a reputation for disdaining email guff, advised – or was that told? – academics not to waste time and cyber space resources...

I can remember when lorries used to come to the door and drop off bottles of "pop" (Vimto / Dandelion & B / Cream Soda / Lemonade / etc)  and pick up empties.  There were deposits on the bottles as...

Thriving in the Anthropocene was the focus of the on-line I-SEE seminar on February 7th at the University of Bath.  It was presented by Mike Berners-Lee, Director of Small World Consulting andthe author of, There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or...