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| Wednesday 22 April 2009 |
A harsh wind for economic recovery
Today’s UK Budget won’t create millions of green jobs in Britain’s windpower industry, because we barely have one.
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| Tuesday 23 December 2008 |
How to have a merry and moral Christmas
Forget ‘going ethical’ by buying overexpensive organic gifts you can’t afford. Be moral this year instead.
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| Wednesday 20 August 2008 |
The mad ranting of our next king
With his over-emotional, fact-lite insistence that GM is ‘destroying everything!’, Charles echoes his unfortunate ancestor George III.
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| Wednesday 23 July 2008 |
Climate hysteria goes the ‘full monty’
BBC2's Burn Up, a big-budget, transatlantic TV drama from the pen of Simon Beaufoy which airs tonight, is tedious, scarcely believable eco-porn.
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| Tuesday 10 June 2008 |
Trapped in a prison of underdevelopment
High infant mortality, crippling disease, grinding poverty: this is tribal life, as celebrated by Survival International.
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| Wednesday 7 May 2008 |
New Labour’s schizo policy on cannabis
The government is happier punishing cannabis users than admitting it cannot inspire youth to do something more interesting than get stoned.
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| Monday 14 April 2008 |
A colourful panic about food additives
The UK's food watchdog has demanded that six artificial colours be banned from food - despite weak evidence linking them to hyperactivity.
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| Tuesday 12 February 2008 |
‘Sustainable’ power to the people?
‘Citizen’ Ken Livingstone’s London energy plan might sound ambitious, but it simply repeats many of the fairytales about green energy.
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| Tuesday 22 January 2008 |
Cloned food scare: where's the beef?
An Axis of Reaction is furious about the idea of 'cloned meat'. Yet such meat is not only safe; it could also bring enormous benefits to both farmers and farmyard animals.
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| Wednesday 16 January 2008 |
‘Green’ light bulbs: not such a bright idea
Some states are planning to ban incandescent light bulbs. But how bright will the future be under their gloomy, ‘energy efficient’ replacements?
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| Wednesday 9 January 2008 |
Ten myths about nuclear power
‘It's dangerous, wasteful and too expensive!’ Greens are busily putting the case against nuclear, but there is not a spark of truth in their arguments.
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| Tuesday 11 December 2007 |
Energy: the answer is not blowing in the wind
Ministers calling for a massive expansion of wind generation in Britain are full of hot air. The rational solution to the energy issue is to go nuclear.
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