The positive spin from so many news outlets is profoundly depressing.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The positive spin from so many news outlets is profoundly depressing.
If only Mr Jekyll was president of the COP.
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
If only Mr Jekyll was president of the COP.
Is this agreement in the room with us now?
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Is this agreement in the room with us now?
‘We’re a virus with shoes on.’
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
‘We’re a virus with shoes on.’
Feels like a V Festival line up. Pretty disappointing for a 20th anniversary
Hope the other headliners are more interesting.
Hope the other headliners are more interesting.
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Feels like a V Festival line up. Pretty disappointing for a 20th anniversary
Hope the other headliners are more interesting.
Hope the other headliners are more interesting.
I’m guessing Reform voters would also argue that their politics isn’t one of division.
People don’t tend to see positions as divisive when they agree with them.
However, this kind of politics is built on division. It’s zero sum. And this isn’t a game that can be won with that kind of thinking.
People don’t tend to see positions as divisive when they agree with them.
However, this kind of politics is built on division. It’s zero sum. And this isn’t a game that can be won with that kind of thinking.
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’m guessing Reform voters would also argue that their politics isn’t one of division.
People don’t tend to see positions as divisive when they agree with them.
However, this kind of politics is built on division. It’s zero sum. And this isn’t a game that can be won with that kind of thinking.
People don’t tend to see positions as divisive when they agree with them.
However, this kind of politics is built on division. It’s zero sum. And this isn’t a game that can be won with that kind of thinking.
Unfortunately, Polanski’s politics also engender division.
The idea that we are engaged in a zero sum game where one side wins and the other loses is the problem.
There is no solution to the environmental crises we face without a broad sense of solidarity across the political spectrum.
The idea that we are engaged in a zero sum game where one side wins and the other loses is the problem.
There is no solution to the environmental crises we face without a broad sense of solidarity across the political spectrum.
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Unfortunately, Polanski’s politics also engender division.
The idea that we are engaged in a zero sum game where one side wins and the other loses is the problem.
There is no solution to the environmental crises we face without a broad sense of solidarity across the political spectrum.
The idea that we are engaged in a zero sum game where one side wins and the other loses is the problem.
There is no solution to the environmental crises we face without a broad sense of solidarity across the political spectrum.
The main issue that needs reforming is its continued dumbing down.
Ideas and individuals, left and right, need to be robustly challenged but there seems to be a growing anti-intellectualism at the BBC that preferences entertainment and engagement over actually informing the audience.
Ideas and individuals, left and right, need to be robustly challenged but there seems to be a growing anti-intellectualism at the BBC that preferences entertainment and engagement over actually informing the audience.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The main issue that needs reforming is its continued dumbing down.
Ideas and individuals, left and right, need to be robustly challenged but there seems to be a growing anti-intellectualism at the BBC that preferences entertainment and engagement over actually informing the audience.
Ideas and individuals, left and right, need to be robustly challenged but there seems to be a growing anti-intellectualism at the BBC that preferences entertainment and engagement over actually informing the audience.
The problem is also the way in which it has been tribalised by both left and right to fit ideological positions.
This should have been a profoundly unifying issue. And yet nearly 40 years after Thatcher’s UN speech, both sides have reframed it as part of an ongoing culture war.
This should have been a profoundly unifying issue. And yet nearly 40 years after Thatcher’s UN speech, both sides have reframed it as part of an ongoing culture war.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The problem is also the way in which it has been tribalised by both left and right to fit ideological positions.
This should have been a profoundly unifying issue. And yet nearly 40 years after Thatcher’s UN speech, both sides have reframed it as part of an ongoing culture war.
This should have been a profoundly unifying issue. And yet nearly 40 years after Thatcher’s UN speech, both sides have reframed it as part of an ongoing culture war.
Unfortunately, population, like every other major environmental issue we face, has become tethered to issues of identity, tribalism and ostentatious displays of moral purity.
The left and right are equally guilty for differing reasons.
The left and right are equally guilty for differing reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Unfortunately, population, like every other major environmental issue we face, has become tethered to issues of identity, tribalism and ostentatious displays of moral purity.
The left and right are equally guilty for differing reasons.
The left and right are equally guilty for differing reasons.
If you say the problem is the number of people then you’re called a fascist.
If you say the problem is the consumption of those people you’re called a communist.
The bad faith from all sides on this issue is why we haven’t solved it and most likely why we won’t.
If you say the problem is the consumption of those people you’re called a communist.
The bad faith from all sides on this issue is why we haven’t solved it and most likely why we won’t.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you say the problem is the number of people then you’re called a fascist.
If you say the problem is the consumption of those people you’re called a communist.
The bad faith from all sides on this issue is why we haven’t solved it and most likely why we won’t.
If you say the problem is the consumption of those people you’re called a communist.
The bad faith from all sides on this issue is why we haven’t solved it and most likely why we won’t.
Train people already here to do the jobs and pay them a proper wage.
The insanity of growthism on the left and right is part of the reason we’re in this mess.
The insanity of growthism on the left and right is part of the reason we’re in this mess.
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Train people already here to do the jobs and pay them a proper wage.
The insanity of growthism on the left and right is part of the reason we’re in this mess.
The insanity of growthism on the left and right is part of the reason we’re in this mess.
We needed to halve emissions by 2030, which is not going to happen.
We are now at the point in which global leaders need to put on their big boy/girl pants and refuse to acquiesce to this lunatic’s demands.
Draw a line in the sand and stand by it.
We are now at the point in which global leaders need to put on their big boy/girl pants and refuse to acquiesce to this lunatic’s demands.
Draw a line in the sand and stand by it.
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We needed to halve emissions by 2030, which is not going to happen.
We are now at the point in which global leaders need to put on their big boy/girl pants and refuse to acquiesce to this lunatic’s demands.
Draw a line in the sand and stand by it.
We are now at the point in which global leaders need to put on their big boy/girl pants and refuse to acquiesce to this lunatic’s demands.
Draw a line in the sand and stand by it.
Or if you want to avoid putting additional pressure on a collapsing ecosystem give women basic reproductive rights and don’t increase the birth rate.
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Or if you want to avoid putting additional pressure on a collapsing ecosystem give women basic reproductive rights and don’t increase the birth rate.
If ‘trusting the experts is a feature of religion and totalitarianism,’ you’d expect the current administration to fully embrace it.
October 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If ‘trusting the experts is a feature of religion and totalitarianism,’ you’d expect the current administration to fully embrace it.
The Greens also have a green problem.
Abandoning their focus on the environment to concentrate on populism and manufactured issues of identity does absolutely nothing to engender the level of solidarity required to tackle climate.
The political echo chamber hears only what it wants to hear.
Abandoning their focus on the environment to concentrate on populism and manufactured issues of identity does absolutely nothing to engender the level of solidarity required to tackle climate.
The political echo chamber hears only what it wants to hear.
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The Greens also have a green problem.
Abandoning their focus on the environment to concentrate on populism and manufactured issues of identity does absolutely nothing to engender the level of solidarity required to tackle climate.
The political echo chamber hears only what it wants to hear.
Abandoning their focus on the environment to concentrate on populism and manufactured issues of identity does absolutely nothing to engender the level of solidarity required to tackle climate.
The political echo chamber hears only what it wants to hear.
Wonder how many ‘Don’t know respondents’ there were.
October 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Wonder how many ‘Don’t know respondents’ there were.
Yes, but the point stands.
Had we chosen to maintain, or better still, strengthen environmental regulation there was nothing preventing that.
This is a collective failure of the British electorate. Every single one of us who hasn’t pushed for greater environmental regulation is culpable.
Had we chosen to maintain, or better still, strengthen environmental regulation there was nothing preventing that.
This is a collective failure of the British electorate. Every single one of us who hasn’t pushed for greater environmental regulation is culpable.
October 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Yes, but the point stands.
Had we chosen to maintain, or better still, strengthen environmental regulation there was nothing preventing that.
This is a collective failure of the British electorate. Every single one of us who hasn’t pushed for greater environmental regulation is culpable.
Had we chosen to maintain, or better still, strengthen environmental regulation there was nothing preventing that.
This is a collective failure of the British electorate. Every single one of us who hasn’t pushed for greater environmental regulation is culpable.
It’s easy to blame Brexit, but we could have enacted a similar ban in the U.K. had we chosen to.
The real blame sits with the British electorate for allowing successive governments to bury environmental regulations.
The real blame sits with the British electorate for allowing successive governments to bury environmental regulations.
October 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It’s easy to blame Brexit, but we could have enacted a similar ban in the U.K. had we chosen to.
The real blame sits with the British electorate for allowing successive governments to bury environmental regulations.
The real blame sits with the British electorate for allowing successive governments to bury environmental regulations.
People need to understand that we win or lose this collectively. Once that sinks in maybe we can stop approaching it like another zero sum game.
October 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
People need to understand that we win or lose this collectively. Once that sinks in maybe we can stop approaching it like another zero sum game.
A similar demographic that backed Momentum era Corbyn and won’t make much of an impact in a GE under the current leadership.
We’re accelerating towards an utter disaster for the environment unless centre ground parties accept the science on climate and start communicating that to voters.
We’re accelerating towards an utter disaster for the environment unless centre ground parties accept the science on climate and start communicating that to voters.
October 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A similar demographic that backed Momentum era Corbyn and won’t make much of an impact in a GE under the current leadership.
We’re accelerating towards an utter disaster for the environment unless centre ground parties accept the science on climate and start communicating that to voters.
We’re accelerating towards an utter disaster for the environment unless centre ground parties accept the science on climate and start communicating that to voters.