A gentler way

Ten years ago, in 2014, the philosopher Alain de Botton published one of his less successful books: The News, A User’s Manual. De Botton took aim at news outlets, suggesting they were sensationalist, fleeting and superficial, failed to represent the vast majority of people’s experiences, and obsessed with celebrities and disasters. He suggested that, even…

Yesterday, the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) legal challenge was heard in the High Court. It was brought by an environmental consultant named Andrew Boswell, and was designed to stop the government granting development consent to the NZT Project, a joint venture between BP and Equinor, which plans to use natural gas in a 860 MW…