“We were then saying to other countries ‘please step up on climate finance’, when we were stepping back on aid to poorer countries.”
“The energy market clearly isn’t working”, he says, stating there’s “a role for common ownership”.
Although he adds that “substantial commitments” have been made in the global battle against climate change.
Plus: Is it really a bad thing if more work from home? And: It’s time to acknowledge private workers’ contributions in the Covid crisis.
While it’s important to focus on the ‘R’ rate in tackling covid, we must also balance health concerns against two other Rs – recovery versus recession.
We have our reservations about the Foreign Secretary, but concede that he alone, of those Ministers who spoke this week, made the Tory message sing.
In advancing controversial policies without an explanation other than economic return, the party has been left open to claims of acting from greed and elitism.
Voters still prefer David Cameron to the Labour leader, but they’re coming round.
In this acutely marginal seat, Labour looks even more vulnerable than the Conservatives to attack by UKIP.
Plus: CCHQ goes all Goebbels. I announce my peerage – replacing Lord Ashcroft. My political bias. Good luck to agents. And: am I an egotistical knob?
The Labour Party only has to look to Scotland to see what happens when the centre-left looks like part of the establishment.
In the era of the internet who needs the TV broadcasters for an election debate?
To give the broadcasters the power to choose who gets a platform in the single most important event of the election campaign is to grant excessive power to a narrow elite
Do we really think in a world that is only getting more dangerous and more complex, we are better off alone, or as part of a team heading in generally the same direction?