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The Committee on Climate Change published the Fifth Carbon Budget at the end of last month. The CCC was established to advise the British government and devolved bodies on meeting future carbon targets. It makes for an interesting read but beneath the surface there is...

Jim McMahon’s success in the Oldham byelection this time last week was unambiguously good news for Labour. The United Kingdom Independence party’s own expectations of a strong result were confounded (as were the fears of many of those who campaigned for Labour on the...

Today, 10 December is the international day of human rights. It marks the genesis of our modern international human rights framework.  The day in 1948 that the United Nations general assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Two years later, the...

In January 2005 we woke up in Carlisle to a nightmare ahead of us. Our beautiful and historic city slowly filled with water, around 3,000 homes were flooded. The whole city lost power, we were plunged into darkness and collectively engulfed in shock. Driving down...