Editors' Blog

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Smooth operator?

So just how clever is Barack Obama, eh?

There we were, puzzling over the waves of factitious “kick ass” outrage pouring...

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Martin Wright

Quiet blades and skylarks

Five days ago I was lucky enough to be strolling along a country lane on a clear blue morning, when a hare rushed out of a wheatfield, virtually...

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If climate change didn’t exist, would we have to invent it?

This mischievous thought occurred to me as I was wading through the latest sclerotic surge of climate scepticism – which is fast becoming...

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Even on Al Jazeera, the old rules still apply…

Just been interviewed on Al Jazeera TV, as part of its coverage of climate issues in the run up to Copenhagen. And it made me realise how...

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Satires and spoofs

 

Dominic Lawson, who’s joined his father Nigel’s crusade against climate science, has penned a blistering review in...

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Travailing hopefully

 

I’m writing this on Eurostar as it races over the flat and featureless plains of northern France (scenery made for...

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Damned if they do and damned if they don't

 

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

‘They’ being the likes of Tesco, BAA and E.ON, all members...

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Nano Tech Solution?

 

The scooter lay on its side in the dust when I got there, its front wheel still spinning. The mother was scrambling to...

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Larging it

There’s an elephant in the living room of climate change, and it’s got a trunk the size of a tropical tree.

It’s called...

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The end of the phoney war

Is it all kicking off?

Is this when the phoney war stops, and the panic begins?

Those were the questions that...

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