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Is this the worst policy announcement ever?

By Clive Bates / 12 September 2007 / 1 Comment / Health, Other policy

There seems to be a plan to give pregnant women £200 and training in nutrition – it will be a […]

By Clive Bates / 12 September 2007 / 1 Comment / Other policy, Science

One of the big questions for me is whether we devote too much land to farming and not enough to

Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) argues that richer countries should be able

The Guardian exploded with indignation this week [Revealed: cover up plan on energy target; leader; letters], at the discovery of

By Clive Bates / 9 August 2007 / 1 Comment / Other policy

An excellent new publication from the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Achieving culture change: a policy framework. It’s open for discussion

By Clive Bates / 30 July 2007 / 1 Comment / Other policy

We’ve had some horrible urban flooding impacts recently. But the outlook is pretty bleak too – the chart is from

As an employee of the Environment Agency, I am increasingly asked “what an earth is going on with all this

Another day, another broadside against carbon emissions trading. The FT’s Martin Wolf offers advice to the new Chancellor, including: While

By Clive Bates / 1 July 2007 / 3 Comments / Other policy

Are you tired of trying to understand the 600-page Stern Review (eg. this perplexing graph showing a 13.8% loss of

By Clive Bates / 19 June 2007 / 4 Comments / Other policy

I was pleased to see the schools inspector Ofsted weighing in on religious education (RE) in schools. The report Making