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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

2022

1 December ​
2022: Space Snooker

2020

3 May ​2020: Covid-19 - what is to be done?

2015

30 January
​2015: How Greens are changing the political environment

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23 January 2015: The difference between Greens and Labour


15 January 2015: Economist Larry Elliot's critique of degrowth

2014


28 August 2014: Debunking Chris Huhne's paean to growth

22 May 2014: Obituary for my friend and colleague, Martin Dent

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2 May 2014: Nudging is anti-democratic and anti-political

15 January 2014: The short-sightedness of fracking as an energy solution

2013

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24 October 2013: Simon Jenkins: research and teaching in Universities

8 May 2013: ‘Nudge’ and democracy

2012

28 December 2012: New Labour, cuts, and local government

1 October 2012: On solving the climate challenge - the need for an eco-state

19 August 2012: Pussy riot sentences​

24 April 2012: Sortition for the House of Lords

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2011

10 November 2011: Europe’s shameful democratic deficit
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9 February 2011: Politics and public spaces

27 January 2011: Chinese hotel door sign - 'Don't bother'

2010

26 October 2010: Public, or private?

2009

23 December 2009: THFC and climate change (Part 2)

21 December 2009: On 10:10, THFC and climate change (Part 1)

5 August 2009: On the UK Citizenship process ​

1 August 2009: On Sky’s James Murdoch’s Edinburgh Festival speech about the BBC ​

19 April 2009: On Will Hutton’s anti-environmentalism 

12 February 2009: On Mark Wallinger’s 50m tall White Horse, due for construction in Kent​

2008

25 November 2008: ‘Quality’ Assurance in UK universities (again)

8 July 2008: ‘Quality’ Assurance in UK universities ​

2007

3 December 2007: Social science in policy-making

15 May 2007: Antarctica 

2 May 2007: Voting Green in the local elections 

31 January 2007: On climate change

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2006

15 September 2006: Climate Change, voting Green, and Al Gore 

9 July 2006: On Bjorn Lomborg 

23 March 2006: Hobbes and Iraq

31 January 2006: Local sustainability 

2005

20 November 2005: Sir David Attenborough and population growth

5 September 2005: Hurricane Katrina

6 November 2005: Tony Blair, transport and climate change

4 November 2005: M6 expansion

1 June 2005: The politics of nuclear power

16 March 2005: New Labour and climate change

8 February 2005: Congestion charge failure in Edinburgh

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31 January 2005: Problems with economic growth




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