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Mobility in Brussels is Bigger than the City Centre
Brussels unveiled the test phase of its new car-free centre at the weekend, with temporary barriers and new road markings almost springing up around the cars at noon on Sunday. As someone who moves around the city easily without a car, but who is regularly faced with the congestion, pollution and noise that cars inflict…
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Go Forth And Vote Green!
Polling day is upon us at last in Britain and the Netherlands, so remember to go and vote Green or GroenLinks today. I’ve been up since half five putting A-boards outside polling stations, and leafleting outside Waverley Station, so I’m off home now to grab my polling card and vote. It’ll be the first time…
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Let’s Make A World Where We Don’t Need IDAHO
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and it is just sixteen years since the WHO removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The fact that I can live openly in an increasingly tolerant and much less discriminating society here in the UK is testament to what has been achieved in the relatively…
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Green New Deal?
The Economist this week carries an article on the Green New Deal (UN version, not ours) under the title “Green, easy and wrong”. Its argument is thus: the green new deal sounds wonderful in principle, a way of solving the two most pressing problems we now face, in an attractive, and easy to explain package;…
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An Official Obama Day (in Kenya)
“Flurry” is a good word to describe the process of the election results. Most of last night was spent waiting for projections, then when they eventually came, they came bundled together. Well there have been a flurry of motions in the Scottish Parliament offering congratulations to Obama today, and similar from world leaders and politicians,…
A passion for communicating
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Making the complicated simple
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