Simon Leadbetter
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Does Griff Rhys Jones have a point about renewable energy? on Friday, May 24th, 2013
A sustainable versus unsustainable recovery on Friday, May 24th, 2013
Are we the zealots of a new religion; an environmental Taliban that is silencing dissent? Not really on Monday, May 20th, 2013
Is Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of investment research an ‘open-minded’ climate sceptic? on Friday, May 17th, 2013
Google, Amazon, etc: blame tax laws, not the taxman or taxpayer on Friday, May 17th, 2013
Financial Times advises on how to become a shareholder activist on Thursday, May 16th, 2013
How denial works: from geocentrism to tobacco to climate change on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
UKIP’s success in the local election is a rallying cry for smaller parties on Thursday, May 9th, 2013
The self-interested (or selfish) investor on Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Vote Green (where they can win) if you care about the future on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Twitter hoax wipes $200bn off Dow Jones (for five minutes) on Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Thatcherism was never about ‘me’ and ‘now’. Quite on Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Baroness Thatcher dies: an Iron Lady, definitely; a Green Lady, maybe on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Big is the enemy of the good in all industries on Sunday, April 7th, 2013
Lomborg talking nonsense (again) on global warming on Saturday, April 6th, 2013
Hades needed one three-headed watchdog; the City needs three separate ones on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Are capitalism and conservation incompatible? on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Extreme weather is not a ‘pub bore’s forecast’ on Thursday, March 28th, 2013
On this day in 1963: the Beeching cuts were not a cut or axe; they were butchery on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
‘There are no moral or ethical considerations when investing’ on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Is sustainable investment gaining traction among financial advisers? on Monday, March 25th, 2013
On this day in 1807: British Empire abolishes slave trade on Monday, March 25th, 2013
Why sustainable investment? Because there is no plan(et) B on Monday, March 25th, 2013
Why sustainable investment? Because it is the right thing to do on Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Why sustainable investment? Because it makes sense on Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Myopic budget threatens UK’s long-term prosperity on Thursday, March 21st, 2013
The budget speech we want to see on Monday, March 18th, 2013
Today’s The Times leader written honestly on Monday, March 18th, 2013
Defenders of a free press are being dishonest on Saturday, March 16th, 2013
Pope Francis: assuming responsibility for nature? on Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Don’t panic! 35 years ago today… on Friday, March 8th, 2013
We don’t have a pope on Friday, March 1st, 2013
Free markets need to be free on Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Honesty, subtlety and complexity in science reporting on Thursday, February 21st, 2013
The very well-funded war against climate science and all of us on Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
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