Climate change is a problem that transcends political differences: it is not a left/right issue. Support from all sides of the political spectrum will be needed if we are successfully to minimise the threats posed to our collective future. Hence it is ...
LONDON -- Climate change and how to respond to it are everywhere in the news at the moment. So, of course, is economic recession, just as global in scope and itself deeply worrying. But what is the relationship between them likely to turn out to ...
Every crisis, Sigmund Freud said, is potentially a stimulus to the positive side of the personality and an opportunity to start afresh. Today we are facing two global crises in tandem - the economic recession and climate change. Both are deeply ...
Reports of the death of New Labour are, as Mark Twain might put it, greatly exaggerated. Most of the themes the party pioneered in its long march away from traditional leftism remain intact. We live in a far more interdependent world than any ...
The latest political memoirs are motivated by a settling of scores - with a sufficient edge of cattiness to get public attention Why are we suddenly assaulted by tell-all political autobiographies? Why did Cherie Blair mention her "unmentionables" and ...
Two important reports came out this weekend. One says obesity will cost the UK £45bn a year by 2050 if current trends are not reversed. Another shows the number of people admitted to hospital with drink-related problems has risen by 30% since 2002. ...
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