I was born in 1993. A British nineties kid. I remember one day when I was seven, I ran screaming through the house giddy with excitement because Pokémon and Digimon were both on TV on the same afternoon and one of my milk teeth had just fallen out...
Tag - Ideology
Climate change should be political but not partisan
Do you see climate change as a political issue? It’s pretty common to hear people deriding the fact that climate change is a political issue, or asserting that in fact it isn’t. I see this most in the American context, but over in my neck of...
What I learnt from the 2018 national peace symposium
On Saturday evening I found myself beating my way through the wind and snow to get to the country’s largest mosque. It was right at the end of the Northern Line in Morden, London, which in that weather felt like the edge of the world. I was...
Why we can’t rely on individuals to fix climate change
The other day I saw a tweet that had escaped its platform of birth to become a Facebook meme. I can’t find it, but it said something like: “Can we all please stop acting like ordinary people are to blame for climate change because we won’t take 5...
5 reasons the Right should be pro climate action
Lately there’s been a lot of talk about political polarisation and ideological bubbles. Brexit in the UK, Trump in America and an apparent withering of the centre ground across Europe while people increasingly go to the radical Right or Left. As...