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Analysis: UK carbon emissions fell 6% in 2016 after record drop in coal use

26 September 2017

Originally published by Carbon Brief, 6th March 2017, written by Simon Evans Carbon Brief analysis shows the UK’s CO2 emissions fell by 5.8% in 2016, after a record 52% drop in coal use. The reduction would leave UK CO2 emissions some 36% below 1990 levels. The huge fall in CO2 from coal use in [read more]

Competence or chaos? – Cameron’s claim to be promoting sound finance is a pretence, a political game (Andrew Gamble)

13 January 2015

Andrew Gamble, Professorial Fellow at SPERI – 13 January 2015 In a speech delivered at the end of last year [2014] David Cameron at last followed the advice which his election strategist Lynton Crosby has been urging and focused on the economy, seeking to build on the momentum of George [read more]

The Lessons from the Buncefield Explosion

27 November 2014

The Buncefield explosion at Hemel Hempstead, to the north of London, which occurred in December 2005, was caused by the overflow of 300 tons of petrol from a storage tank. A fuel-air vapour cloud was created and this subsequently ignited with an explosion that was felt across a wide area of [read more]

The British crisis and the ‘end of neoliberalism’ – Pia Riggirozzi & Jean Grugel

19 November 2014

by Pia Riggirozzi, Senior Lecturer in Global Politics, University of Southampton, and Jean Grugel, Professor of International Development, University of Sheffield The crisis in British politics, from the slow, partial and uneven economic recovery to the exhaustion of the Westminster model in the [read more]

Deflation trap – Andrew Gamble

2 September 2014

Andrew Gamble, Chair of SPERI International Advisory Board & Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge The European Central Bank has consistently denied that there is any chance of the eurozone falling into deflation. The ‘deceleration of prices’ in recent months has been dismissed [read more]

“It’s Our Turn to East, The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower” by Michela Wrong, A Review

13 July 2014

By Andrew Palmer Feb 11, 2010 – 8:56:52 AM Email this article Printer friendly page pub. Fourth Estate, London, 2009 This important book has recently been issued in paperback, and anyone who has any interest in Africa, the International “Aid” industry and the impact of corruption should [read more]

Future Strategic Challenges for Britain

3 April 2014

In February 2008 The Strategy Unit in the UK Cabinet Office published a report setting out the challenges that Britain faces, it is called “Realising Britain’s Potential:Future Strategic Challenges for Britain”. What is interesting about this report, and why it has relevance outside [read more]

Optimum Population Trust Critical of UK Population Policy (2008)

2 November 2008

The UK government’s national security strategy recognises many of the new environmental symptoms of global insecurity but ignores their root cause, the Optimum Population Trust said on March 19, 2008. David Nicholson-Lord, OPT research associate, said: “Talking about threats to national [read more]

“Desert of Death, A Soldier’s Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan” by Leo Docherty

1 November 2008

“Desert of Death, A Soldier’s Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan” by Leo Docherty, published by Faber & Faber (London) in 2007 is one of an increasing number of British books on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Leo Docherty, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Scots [read more]

Nicholas Stern – A Policy Framework for Climate Change

23 February 2008

Lord Stern, author of the review on the economics of climate change (“The Stern Report”, 2006) wrote in The Times (London) on the 22 February 2008 pointing out the need for a clear policy framework to deal with the threat posed by climate change. He wrote, “Climate change is the [read more]

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