WHAT is the most important issue in our winter election? A question with no clear answer.
ACCORDING to the great poet Wordsworth, “The child is father of the man”. Certainly our beginnings often determine our future when it comes to education, jobs, housing, even long-term health.
HOW much should Britain pay to save the planet from our manmade climate crisis? A daft question, you might think. After all, without a healthy planet, we’ll all pay a potentially fatal price.
RECENTLY, I revisited a nightmare from history: the traumatic break up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. My motive was a spot of background research for a work of fiction. Yet, as is so often the case, facts from history echo beyond their own time. As do history’s lessons.
LAST week, the world’s most prestigious authority when it comes to the oil industry, the Climate Accountability Institute, published some devastating data.
A MILD-MANNERED lady of my acquaintance recently shocked me. We were chatting on the street corner when someone passed by, towed by a brace of poodles. She remarked: “There are far too many dogs.”
WHAT should we expect from a Prime Minister? That question is casting a shadow over the entire country.
LAST week, from New York to Sydney, Dhaka to Paris, millions of ordinary people joined a climate strike to demand action on global heating and the environment. In Yorkshire, too, concerned citizens of all ages and from all walks of life protested: in Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster, York, and many smaller communities.
SOCIAL media is full of amusing videos: cats meowing like opera singers, squirrels doing high wire somersaults. But sometimes you come across a gem that opens your eyes very wide indeed.
PEOPLE of a certain age will remember a time when the biggest threat to the world was not seen as climate change, but nuclear weapons.
