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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Blog bearings

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Now blogging here: http://sustainablecitiessustainableworld.blogspot.co.uk/
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Crunch carrots, cut climate change

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We really need to be redoubling our efforts to tackle climate change. Just look at the blog entry before this one, where Stern says the prob...
Friday, February 01, 2013

Climate change: consummate concern

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Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'. Author of 2006 review speaks out on danger to econo...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Climate cold shoulder

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Here's an interesting Radio 4 program on what lies beneath widespread denial of climate change.  Laurie Taylor talks to Sally Weintrobe...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Disavow Dumping

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Received from Stop Hinkley : Councillors in the Lake District have volunteered as a potential site for a nuclear waste dump. Please...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Steiner Secrecy??

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Excellent blog post here by Andy Lewis on the Steiner Free School that is being proposed in Bristol (see this Post story for the latest new...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Congestion charge case

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Bristol’s horrendous traffic continues to lower our health, wellbeing and quality of life. This will continue to damage present and future g...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Co-operation and Cabinet

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Bristol's Labour Party could decide tonight not to accept places on the new Mayor's Cabinet or to advise the Mayor (see here ) and i...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Temperate tax rise

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I heartily approve of most of the early decisions that have been made by newly sworn in Mayor of Bristol George Ferguson. The biggest of the...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Woman winner!

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Fantastic! A victory for independence, impartiality and ability to represent the whole community. Newly elected Police and Crime Commissio...

Congratulations and commiserations

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Many congratulations to George Ferguson and commiserations to the other candidates, especially to Marvin Rees. You have to work hard to be...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Voters: vote voluminously!!!

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Worrying signs - from postal vote numbers and numbers going to polling stations so far - that the voter turnout in the Bristol Mayoral and A...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Men and Mayor

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Daniella Radice, the Green candidate   standing to become Mayor of Bristol, has produced the most comprehensive and detailed manifesto of po...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Bell's backing

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Former BBC war reporter and independent MP for Tatton 1997-2001, Martin Bell - the first independent MP for 50 years and now a UNICEF Amba...

Spurious spin

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The recent survey of mayoral voting intentions showed Conservative Geoff Gollop in 3rd place not second and a very, very large number of u...
Monday, November 12, 2012

City Candidates

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We need a Mayor who meets tests of competence, credibility and coherence. Labour's Marvin Rees does not currently meet these tests: he...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Obama's oratory

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Loved Obama's re-election speech and am really pleased that he won (and very relieved that Mitt Romney didn't!). My favourite part ...

Tony for tribalism?

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Now that we are to have a Mayor I agree with actor Tony Robinson’s description of who/what is required, with its emphasis on personality, vi...

Reality vs Rogers

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Bristol Lib Dem mayoral election spin (some might say lying) says  'Dr Jon Rogers is quickly emerging as the only serious challenger to ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Negligent Nadine

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Following MP Nadine Dorries shining example, boosting the reputation of MPs and the political system: Dear Open University [ my employer ...
Sunday, November 04, 2012

Misleading mulling

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We have an erroneous way of thinking about land and using figures relating to it. This erroneous thinking is used to 'justify' uns...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Efficiency elide

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Debates on UK energy policy focus almost exclusively on energy generation/production and often neglect even to mention energy saving and ene...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Nuclear news

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The Post says 'Japan's largest industrial electronics maker has signed a £700 million deal to buy the UK's nuclear project Horiz...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Rees: remodeller?

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'I stand for change' says the leaflet just received from Marvin Rees. But the prescription is the same old stuff. Its party polit...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Candid Commissioner

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Given that the Electoral Commission has said: “The swearing of an oath will be an important symbol of impartiality, emphasising both the si...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Bust bigotry

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Its right to call for an end to topless women appearing on page 3 (see report here ). Its not simply an exposed pair of breasts that's t...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

People paramount

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Bristol 1st indicates that the people of Bristol are paramount rather than any single political party. The logo marks out what mayoral can...

Member's means

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Many MPs have second jobs eg North East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg received around £132,000 in the year to August from his company Somerset...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Wealthy = wrong????

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Its pretty 'rich' that George Ferguson has 'been criticised by some Labour backers on social website Twitter over his personal...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

'Successful' shooting??

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Joined in a debate on the cruelty, or not, of culling badgers  by shooting and whether supermarkets should label milk from farms involved in...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Halfbaked Hopkins

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In the ongoing online discussions on this Post story about the mayoral election Lib Dem Councillor for Knowle, Gary Hopkins chips in this s...
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