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Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 30 August 2010. No comments.
This show sounded like a major apologia and a minor mea culpa from the BBC’s chief climate change analyst . It was, though, mostly depressingly familiar. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 25 July 2010. No comments.
I was asked to appear on Radio 4’s special programme BP: Beyond the horizon and the Macondo disaster. Would it transform the firm and the oil business? I’m clinging to the idea that it won’t much, but with one big caveat. Here’s the crib I prepared…. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns on 21 July 2010. No comments.
These books certainly fit my prejudices, but also tally with my 4o years of following the news in a middlebrow sort of way. If they’re wrong in any particular, or their general conclusions, it’d be fascinating to see the evidence. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 15 June 2010. No comments.
It’s been a spectacularly bad few days for BP. Things looks set to get a bit worse. But they may yet turn out less than apocalyptic. Without shouting the odds, here’re some thoughts. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns on 4 June 2010. No comments.
We are at the beginning of the end of the phoney war on the BP oil spill. We seem to be in sight of beginning the real shooting. Here’s why… More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns on 17 May 2010. No comments.
Obviously we all need to cross our fingers for BP. The oil giant needs the same luck as the seashores its oil may yet severely damage. This may, after all, be the worst such accident we have yet seen, as I said on the BBC’s Today programme. I hope I wasn’t premature in a later FT letter in suggesting that the oil giant, and its industry, will flourish however awful the outcome of this accident, and deserves to. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 16 May 2010. No comments.
Just before I get too sunny, here are three areas where the country’s politicians, and the Tories not least, face real problems. They all centre on the country’s habit of self-deception. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 16 May 2010. No comments.
I was often depressed and irritated by Gordon Brown, but he made a good departure (that matters in political life). Better still, substantial people are fighting for his reputation. Irwin Stelzer (the Spectator), Anthony Seldon (the Guardian) and Martin Wolf (the Financial Times) have all mounted defences of his record. This is luck on a large scale.
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 16 May 2010. No comments.
This is a golden period for Conservatives. Their party is a natural vehicle for the politics and government of the early 21st Century. Who’d a thunk it? More »
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 9 May 2010. One comment.
One ought to take some risks at such a time. Mine is to say that this is the best political period for decades. More »
