Climate Watch

Dame Norma: We need Net Zero because I say so

Readers will recall TCW writer Gillian Dymond’s attempts to get a straight answer from Dame Norma Redfearn, Mayor of North Tyneside, about why North Tyneside Council has signed up to UK100, ‘a network of local leaders who have pledged to lead a rapid transition to Net Zero with Clean Air in their communities ahead of the government’s legal […]

How we halted the solar farm juggernaut

A FEW weeks ago a small group of dedicated campaigners in North Lincolnshire heard that they had successfully overturned a decision to use prime agricultural land as a solar farm. This was the most recent of a Lincolnshire hat-trick this year, suggesting not just that people are finally waking up to the importance of growing food in the UK, but that they […]

Yes, democracy is under threat – but not from the right

READERS may not be familiar with Professor Paul Krugman. Most will probably be unaware of his exemplary, world-class, innovative thinking and writing as an economist who discovered my former scholarly field, economic geography. His books such as Geography and Trade in the 1990s changed debates, and for the better. He was smart and a heavy hitter. A Nobel Prize winner, no […]