As the Copenhagen summit draws to a close, there has been no deal on reducing emissions. No deal on which to base mankind’s future on this planet. Some states (USA, Brazil, South Africa, India and China) have agreed to limit global temperature increases to 2C, but have not agreed on how to implement this. It has been referred to as a ‘first step’. If this is true, then what was Kyoto? That was 12 years ago, and...

The New Statesman is reporting that despite the humiliating defeat when trying to prevent the Grauniad from publishing information regarding Trafigura raised in Parliament, lawyers Carter-Ruck are continuing to take legal action against BBC’s Newsnight over an investigation entitled: Dirty Tricks and Toxic Waste in the Ivory Coast. As a result of the libel action, the BBC have removed the video from their website. However, bloggers...

Tonight the BBC showed a fantastic documentary on the Votes at 16 campaign, which I fully support! (If you haven’t seen it, it’s here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m0sd0/16_Too_Young_to_Vote/) Fronted by Melissa Suffield (Lucy Beale in Eastenders), we saw a well-presented look at the issues regarding the lowering of the voting age. The main argument is that 16 and 17 year olds accept many responsibilities of...

Well that’s a week’s worth of stories in the Torygraph that condemn all politicians as conmen – regardless of what they claimed for! But for every Hazel Blears there are politicians that will go out and genuinely work hard for their constituents, whilst also not exploiting poorly worded rules regarding expenses. I worry that there are many good politicians out there who are not becoming MPs because they do not want to...