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That’s True Too

That's True Too

In Pursuit of Pluralism

Caroline
Lucas

Claire Foy stars in ‘H is for Hawk’
Photo: Pictorial Press

Not Worth the Energy

Listening to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme is becoming bad for my health.

I recently came alarmingly close to throwing the toaster at the radio in frustration with Simon Jack’s interview with John Browne, the former CEO of BP, on drilling in the North Sea.

Browne was given nearly 10 minutes of airtime, without challenge, to laud the supposed benefits of opening more oil and gas fields. The word ‘climate’ wasn’t mentioned once.

But then so little of this debate is informed by pesky facts – for example the inconvenient truth that, as a group of scientists recently reminded us in an open letter to UK party leaders, “we have more global reserves of oil and gas than we can safely burn if we are to limit global temperature rise to below 2°C”.

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Mandrake – Where’s ‘Daddy Cool’?

Ed Davey’s decision not to officially involve the Liberal Democrats in the massive anti-far-right march in London at the end of March, organised by the Together Alliance, resulted in the resignation of a prominent member of his party’s old guard – and did nothing to dispel a growing unease about his leadership.
Tim Walker

The ‘Seesaw’ of Change Redefining UK Politics

We were in Greater Manchester chatting to a couple of women,” says Luke Tryl, whose organisation More in Common has spent the past 10 years speaking to voters about what is driving our national politics.
Adam Bienkov