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Silos and the environment
“They are protesting on the wrong streets, in the wrong city – the wrong country” Andrea Leadsom, London Evening Standard, 10 October 2019 It would be fair to say that Mrs Leadsom is not a fan of Extinction Rebellion. Our Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy thinks ER has inflicted “untold disruption”…
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Climate strikes
20 September 2019. A day to remember. A global climate strike, involving millions of people around the world, led by schoolchildren. In New York, over 1 million children from 1800 schools were allowed to skip school in order to protest. In Britain, a meaner attitude emanated from the authorities: “Every child should be in school,” declared our Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, “they shouldn’t be bunking…