It’s long been a cliché that Prince William represents a “new generation” of British royalty who are unencumbered by the prejudices and stifling customs of their grandparents in particular — the ones who got Prince Charles to marry a woman … Continue reading
Patriarchy is killing our planet - women alone can save her - The Ecologist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, an investigative journalist best known for work on Muslim civil rights and terrorism, wrote the above article for the Ecologist website last month … Continue reading
Yesterday I decided to have a walk through the Olympic Park, which opened a couple of weeks ago after having been closed since the end of the Olympics in 2012. I was excited that a new, large park had opened … Continue reading
Along with the Arctic ice, the rich world’s smugness will melt | George Monbiot (in yesterday’s Guardian) This article appeared in yesterday’s Guardian and it is about the record melting of Arctic ice that has happened this summer, which is … Continue reading
A while back, before I got the hang of Twitter as a means of announcing blog posts and conducting cross-border conversations without having to log into a chat client (and well before getting my Android phone yesterday and being able … Continue reading
BBC NEWS | UK | Coastal access law changes Rounding the British coast is popular right now; Hilary Lister did it in her little sip-and-puff sailboat, the BBC keeps doing it to make one series of Coast after another (unless … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 had a lovely feature this morning about the Degmo Centre, a farm in Wales where Somalis from Britain’s inner cities come to learn about their rural roots. In Somalia, families often send children to spend time with … Continue reading
This really quite shocking story appeared in the Guardian today: a ship chartered by a British firm, Trafigura, dumped toxic waste in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, in 2006, making some 100,000 people ill, of which 30,000 are suing … Continue reading
Gordon Brown today gave the go-ahead for the third runway at Heathrow airport, the international airport in the western suburbs of London. I posted what Simon Jenkins wrote about this disaster yesterday, and here is what George Monbiot has to … Continue reading
Simon Jenkins: A runway for jobs? It’s time aviation’s bluff was called (The Guardian) An excellent opinion piece on the stream of lies and broken promises which have led to the proposal for the third Heathrow runway, which the Government … Continue reading
Recently three people I know visited Cairo. One of them, a Muslim of Somali origin who lives in Canada, spent two weeks there on the way to Dubai and Somalia; the other two, both relatives of mine, went on a … Continue reading
Been wondering recently why you can’t get The Ecologist in the Whole Foods shops in London? (These include the former Fresh & Wild stores.) The reason is apparently that the magazine printed a feature a few issues back which was … Continue reading
This week it’s appeared that serious consideration has been given to building a third runway, and a sixth terminal, at Heathrow Airport. The project will require the destruction of an entire suburban village, blight another tract of London with flight … Continue reading
BBC NEWS | UK | Organic move to cut food flights The Soil Association, the organisation which advocates for and certifies organic food in the UK, is considering stripping organic status from food which is air-freighted into the country, because … Continue reading
Melanie Phillips’s Diary » The emperor’s green new clothes Melanie Phillips lapped up the recent documentary entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, a polemic produced by Martin Durkin, a veteran of the old Revolutionary Communist Party who metamorphosed into a … Continue reading
Guardian Unlimited: Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them A follow-up to George Monbiot’s three articles in the Guardian’s G2 supplement last week on global warming, all edited extracts from his new book Heat ([1], … Continue reading
Guardian Unlimited: George Monbiot on climate change and oil giant ExxonMobil This is a lengthy article, which appeared in today’s G2 supplement in the Guardian, by George Monbiot. It is about the “global warming denial” industry, which is based around … Continue reading
The Society Guardian, a supplement to the London Guardian, yesterday published two features on ethnic minority participation, and specifically Muslim participation, in environmental campaigns and in rural activities. Cause for all cultures explores why ethnic minorities are so under-represented in … Continue reading