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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]