#Opinion

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Oct 2024 Business & Childhood

Oct 2022 Rail strikes

Jun 2022 A "one-hit-wonder party" to solve First Past The Post

Jun 2020 Dowding''s Law: "The United States is such an outlier that it should not be used as a normative data-point.

Apr 2020 What open source hardware do we need next?

Apr 2020 Civilisation Continuity Planning

Jun 2019 Things customer service people should never say: "I''d suggest posting this in the Ideas Forum

Feb 2019 Putting the Green back in the Greenback - Evolving capitalism for the 21st century

Dec 2017 This town ain't big enough for the both of us - or .. oh. wait yes it is!

Dec 2017 Procedural language: The importance of going through the motions.

Oct 2017 Is the UK the best country in the world?

Sep 2017 Migration policy suggestions from "The Strange Death of Europe

Jul 2017 The unbearable lightness of politics

Jul 2017 God helped society put its thumb on the scales

Jun 2016 A Europe to die for.

Mar 2015 The peace of the lobotomised or the peace of the contended?

Nov 2014 10 things I'd like the Green Party to do

Sep 2014 Now for some thoughts on sheep.

Mar 2014 Historical re-imagining

Mar 2014 Clear message to the police

Mar 2014 EU sort of forces companies to report on social and environmental impact

Mar 2014 Life is too important for obvious news

Dec 2013 I've decided I'm in favour of NHS privatisation.

Dec 2013 Someone forgot that we're supposed to be amazing.

Nov 2013 Post-materialist delight

Nov 2013 If we can imagine it, we can do it. Right? Right?! RIGHT!

Nov 2013 The status update I never write

Nov 2013 I love the NHS but I'm about to have a micro-rant.

Oct 2013 Democracy is the best I can think of right now

Oct 2013 Nobody's come up with a good alternative to capitalism..

Oct 2013 Government ideologically supports nuclear power.

Jun 2013 What happened to political leadership?

Jun 2013 Superior orders

Jun 2013 Evidence-based policies

Jun 2013 There are two kinds of failure.

May 2013 Does your MP think a vote on Europe is the most important thing right now?

May 2013 At-a-glance: Queen' Speech 2013

May 2013 Petition fatigue: in defence of clicktivism.

Mar 2013 Market folly

Jan 2013 The 32 most alarming charts from the government's climate change report | Grist

Jan 2013 The world is on track for disaster. Who wants to buy a farm?

Dec 2012 Building on allotments

Nov 2012 Somebody thought of it, and someone believed it" - a generation steps forward at London Sustainability Jam

Apr 2012 Faults

Mar 2012 Views are my own

Dec 2011 Two more quotes from Forty days of Rain

Sep 2011 Untitled

Sep 2011 The Food Movement: getting better or worse?

Sep 2011 Shades of green: should there be more organic licencing options?

May 2011 Economic development not economic growth.

Mar 2011 It only takes a generation to redefine normal.

Mar 2011 My MP strives for growth

Mar 2011 Tidy your <del>room</del> planet or else there will be no <del>pudding</del> Maldives.

Feb 2011 Kings Lynn incinerator & Zero Waste

Feb 2011 Organic is the only game in town. Get playing. Now.

Feb 2011 Nothing Is As Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

Jan 2011 Fish, Forests, and the 21st Century commons

Jan 2011 Gaming for a better world.

Jan 2011 Reasons to be cheerful: Peak Phosphorous

Jan 2011 Time to use those 'insurance files' on Rupert Murdoch?

Dec 2010 Neo-Classical elements: Time, money, energy, politics

Dec 2010 Merchant Bank that threatened to leave UK 'just went round corner and waited' | NewsBiscuit

Nov 2010 Eric Cantona joins in calling for economic change

Nov 2010 Contentious post about tuition fees

Nov 2010 How do we get the right answer?

Nov 2010 Shaking it up, Abbey style.

Oct 2010 Finite and Infinite Games

Oct 2010 Supporting the vitality of the Commons

Sep 2010 Money says 'no'. Money is broken. Keeps saying 'no' to everything sensible, and 'yes' to lots of stupid things.

Aug 2010 Problems with paradigm change

Jul 2010 Bottled water is the answer to global warming

Jun 2010 Don't do anything that isn't play

Jun 2010 20 get rich quick schemes

Jun 2010 It's not BP's fault, it's yours

Jun 2010 Vatican reaches out to atheists

May 2010 Is there a useful time to have money?

Apr 2010 We are now a 3 party country

Apr 2010 Growth or no-growth?

Apr 2010 God is a stress reaction

Apr 2010 Kim Stanley Robinson on BldgBlog

Mar 2010 The UK's renewable energy is a national shame

Mar 2010 James Murdoch vs Reason

Feb 2010 Green Revolution in India Wilts as Subsidies Backfire

Feb 2010 Ethical bottled water is an oxymoron

Jan 2010 Haiti is no big deal.

Jan 2010 Middle class virtue

Dec 2009 Royal Mail strikes - a postie's perspective

Dec 2009 Swiss minarets - a defence, not an attack

Sep 2009 Heidi's Bar

Jul 2009 Dissolution of the Long Parliament

Jun 2009 The World According to Monsanto

Jun 2009 Going from good to bad.. shouldn't that be the other way around?

Jun 2009 Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings

Jun 2009 I have nothing to fear from a DNA database

Jun 2009 Housing on mars

Jun 2009 How to be Good

Jun 2009 Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street

May 2009 Another reason not to buy plastic bottled water, or plastic bottled anything for that matter.

Apr 2009 Pipped at the post to be an independent MEP ... this time

Apr 2009 ElectEd.in introductory speech

Apr 2009 6 Reasons never to give up your biometric data or DNA

Apr 2009 Susan Boyle: the organic carrot of entertainment

Apr 2009 Own it!!" day -- make this YOUR cause

Apr 2009 DNA databases require so much regulation that abuse is inevitable.

Apr 2009 At last, Europe has become interesting

Apr 2009 Sacrifices on the alter of efficiency

Apr 2009 How we measure progress and development

Apr 2009 Do we have enough rage?

Apr 2009 Journalism, not newspapers

Apr 2009 Twitter will not grow much larger than it is now

Apr 2009 Market failures: bridges vs tunnels

Apr 2009 The old models don't work

Apr 2009 So much for the green economy...

Mar 2009 How to make things better

Jan 2009 Tied up in knots

Jan 2009 STILL not going to America

Jan 2009 Relationships, made code

Dec 2008 Recession is a test of character" -- Gordon Brown

Dec 2008 It's all fucking fucked

Dec 2008 Recession

Dec 2008 Darwin spins again

Nov 2008 The slippery slope of evil

Nov 2008 Left, right, and centering

Nov 2008 If only...

Oct 2008 Nudge: Rational man

Oct 2008 The third way

Oct 2008 ID cards

Jun 2008 Look how much bad shit there is going on.

Jun 2008 debate

May 2008 It's in the mix

May 2008 CCTV does not work

Apr 2008 People in Bars

Mar 2008 I'll bet we won't all get a phone call from Condi

Mar 2008 Allegience to the Queen

Mar 2008 How to prepare children for the future?

Mar 2008 How to sound more important

Nov 2007 Planks and specks

Oct 2007 How to get things done