Cut off from the world November 18, 2021 [Re: US-China rhetoric won’t save our climate woes if Beijing stays hooked on coal, November 12] It is depressing that countries such as China, India and Russia appear unwilling to stop burning coal within timescales necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change. At the same time, other countries are continuing to allow large scale deforestation of [...]
Just keep moving November 16, 2021 [Re: Uber’s model was rife with flaws but the gig economy deserves saving, yesterday] The piece in support of Uber is fair enough, but it ignores the fact that a lot of Uber traffic came from tempting people off of public transport. In doing so, it added to the problem of climate change and congestion, [...]
Travelling in the wrong direction November 12, 2021 [Re: Tory sleaze row, ongoing] Boris Johnson’s behaviour resembles a candle in the wind, shift and changing as the breeze and tornadoes of public opinion blow. His statement that breaches in conduct should be punished cut right across his defence of Owen Paterson. I agree that this country isn’t corrupt; thankfully we have the press [...]
Letters: Thinking outside the (meta) box November 11, 2021 [Re: Interacting in the metaverse, November 10] Nicola Mendelsohn’s plans to have us all living our lives inside the “metaverse” border on delusional. Sure, Facebook (or Meta), has proved the case for addictive social media. But there’s a growing backlash to this with people paying to go on phone-free retreats. How does making social media [...]
One way ticket to bankrupt November 10, 2021 [Re: World set to warm by 2.4 degrees, yesterday] Cop26 has accelerated our desire to decarbonise but how much will it cost? I simply do not subscribe to the idea that the UK has an endless pot of money funded with Modern Monetary Theory. Yes, a dead planet is worse but there needs to be [...]
Letters: SMEs need cash for climate November 5, 2021 [Re: Small businesses look to Cop26 for fiscal support, 2nd November] The Federation of Small Business (FSB) report stated SMEs want more financial support and policy to help them become more sustainable. We agree, but financial products that marry both commercial competitiveness and ESG-related benefits have not been forthcoming. Not addressing this could derail the [...]
Capitalism is doing the heavy-lifting on greening our climate October 31, 2021 As on-the-nose metaphors go, the entirety of Britain’s climate class being unable to get to Glasgow on time because of a tree falling onto the train tracks is right up there. Let us hope it is not an omen for the rest of the Cop-26 conference. Our expectations are, to be frank, low. It is [...]
Capitalism is doing the heavy-lifting on greening our climate October 1, 2021 As on-the-nose metaphors go, the entirety of Britain’s climate class being unable to get to Glasgow on time because of a tree falling onto the train tracks is right up there. Let us hope it is not an omen for the rest of the Cop-26 conference. Our expectations are, to be frank, low. It is [...]
Barclays forgot about the humans in HR February 21, 2020 Barely a day goes by without a think tank, employers’ group or minister talking about the need to improve the productivity or British business, and while this generally conjures up images of factory floors it’s reassuring to know that investment banks are also searching for elusive gains. How else to explain the decision by Barclays [...]
Labour looks destined to sit out the next 10 years in political wilderness February 14, 2020 On Monday Lord Michael Ashcroft published a detailed and searingly honest critique of the Labour party’s failed 2019 election. Based on polling and focus groups of former Labour voters, he painted a picture of a party that had drifted so far away from the values and aspirations of ordinary people that its drubbing was inevitable. [...]