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I watched the ever-downbeat and miderabilist Ms T as she wandered the streets of Glasgow, and I listened to her latest peroration to the faithful.  She clearly has nothing new to say, and seemingly nothing positive to contribute.  Indeed, she...

Did you watch the final session of COP26 on TV?  Did you see the last few seconds ambush by India (and their Chinese pals)?  The trouble with carrying out skulduggery in public is that everyone can see.  All very unsubtle....

So says the statement issued by the Co-Chairs of the Education and Environment Ministers summit at COP26 last Friday.  This was the meeting I skipped on Friday. There's a 6 point preamble (in that awful, stilted UNESCO-speak) followed by 8...

I was going to force myself to watch the UNESCO event at COP26 last Friday.  This was Together For Tomorrow: Education and Climate Action – which the advance publicity said would call "on education and environment ministers to pledge to integrate climate...

"Watch an exciting lesson on the topics of sustainability and climate change within the newly built Gen-Zero classroom, and find out how teachers and young people can help to tackle the ..." I watched the Teach the Teacher session at...

There was a climate education debate last week in parliament – in Westminster Hall.  The new minister of state for school standards spoke. You can read the full event transcript of the debate here. One thing I noticed was the focus...

What a sad reflection on the state of higher education in the UK that Kathleen Stock felt unable to continue to work at the University of Sussex after being accused of speaking the truth about biology and upholding enlightenment values.  The...

A report commissioned by the Department of Business (etc) has vanished from the government website after being posted for only a few days.  It was, the government says, "published in error" – a likely story.  The report is a review...

Here's a link to a video produced by UNDP ahead of COP26.  In it, a T-Rex lookalike addresses the UN General Assembly on the need for action on the climate.  As T-Rexs go, its behaviour is quite restrained, though why...

Here's a letter sent to the Secretary of State for Education (England) by four education unions (NEU  NASUWT  UCU  UNISON) the other day.  Two of the unions represent teachers in English schools: Dear Mr Zahawi Quality Climate Education As the Intergovernmental...