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Three years ago, on 7 July 2017, something quite remarkable happened. After decades of trying to get the nuclear powers to fulfil their commitments under...

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I was reminded by Facebook yesterday that I had posted a picture of my sunglasses 5 years ago. One balmy June evening, I had dug my bike out from the back...

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The village emergency committee sounds like a possible subject for J. K. Rowling’s next novel of English rural life and is easy to mock. I felt my eyes...

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Climate outreach aims to ensure that climate change and its impacts are understood, accepted and acted upon across the breadth of society. We caught up...

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A pause has been forced on urban life. Quiet roads, empty skies, deserted high streets and parks, closed cinemas, cafés and museums – a break in the...

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Last year governments around the world declared a ‘climate emergency’ and then did pretty much nothing to act as if it is one. Now here’s Covid-19,...

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Amid the fear, uncertainty and personal loss that surround the current Covid-19 pandemic, people are starting to think about what form a ‘just recovery’...

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‘On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.’ – Arnaud Desjardin   The COVID-19 outbreak has put the UK, and indeed many parts...

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Business represents the great paradox of rapid transition. On the one hand, much is expected of business in terms of technological innovation, new models of...