(Is this) a Basic Income breakthrough?
The Green Party will feature a fully costed universal basic income in its next election manifesto. This is a major, if long overdue step forward, but it does need tweaking. […]
Yellowhammer – the beginning of the end for democracy?
On a train recently another passenger let me read her copy of Private Eye’ on Operation Yellowhammer. It is frightening. The stark contrast between the totally unnecessary disruption, possibly civil […]
GP 2019 snap election strategy
A election at short notice is among the possibilities in the current fast-moving political scene (prorogation declared unconstitutional etc). if it happens, it will be a travesty. Farage has signalled […]
Who is listening to the climate protesters?
On Friday’s Any Questions, Radio 4 8pm, David Davis MP (Conservative), downplayed the threat which brought out 4 million activists world wide, but he made a valid point which those […]
Permaculture, XR, and basic income
Last weekend I went with my partner to the Permaculture Convergence near Oxford. It’s an annual conference really, but assumes that members have robust constitutions, being mostly under canvas or […]
Is Boris’s prorogation of Parliament a ‘Reichstag Fire’ moment?
Prorogation is about Brexit, right? But the ‘Reichstag fire’ allusion has suddenly alerted me to the course the real, ecological crisis will take. This Prospect magazine account examines this in […]
Bolsonaro’s Brazil; and Steel
My understanding of the Tragedy of the Commons leads me to two surprising conclusions. I join the outrage at Bolsonaro’s rainforest destruction, but the forces driving it are formidable. (Thank […]
