A YouGov poll commissioned by the Media Standards Trust has found overwhelming public support for a new system of independent regulation, established by law. Alongside several...
In an apocryphal story worthy of QI, when Gandhi was asked what he thought of western civilisation, he replied, “It would be a good idea.” We...
Last week’s energy bill announcement led to media headlines about increased household bills from subsidising renewables. What the media fails to mention is the scandalous subsidy...
Simon Leadbetter explains how the benefits of subsidising renewable energy technologies far outweigh any kind of opposition. There’s a famous scene from Monty Python’s Life of...
Over at Desmogblog, a guest post by James Lawrence Powell demolishes the scientific credibility of climate deniers. By Jim’s definition, 24 of the 13,950 articles, 0.17%...
Three hundred and sixty-eight years ago today, John Milton published Areopagitica, and it remains to this day one of the most influential philosophical defences of free...
Forty-nine years ago today, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Just over a year earlier, he made his seminal “we choose to go to the moon” speech...
We seem to be locked in an endless financial crisis. Starting with a sub-prime housing bubble, complex financial derivatives linked to those assets contaminated global finance,...
Over the last two years we’ve written a lot about sustainable investment (AKA ethical, responsible, impact, thematic, clean, etc.). With financial trade outstripping real trade 26:1,...
Sir Winston Churchill once said, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”. We didn’t hit our ambitious...
Blue & Green Tomorrow was two years in the making and today we’re two years old. The simple idea was to write about the connection between...
Tomorrow is the final day of our quest to raise funds from crowdfunding. With hundreds of emails, tweets and shares we secured some truly great support...
With three days to go until our Sponsume crowdfunding campaign ends, there are three things you can do other than dig deep and donate to our cause. So...
The Rt Hon David Willetts MP, minister of state for universities and science has laid down a written ministerial statement in the House of Commons rejecting...
The wet summer leading to saturated ground, high rivers and groundwater mean we are likely to suffer severe floods throughout the autumn and winter. Today’s warning...