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SERA Articles

Westminster’s inconvenient truth

Britain has lost its place as a world leader on climate change, writes Melanie Smallman This summer saw horrific floods in Texas and Bangladesh and one of the most powerful storms in history roaring across the Atlantic coast of the United States. While Donald Trump...

Business, unions, campaigners and Labour on the same page

Last Friday, 1,000 people in the solar power industry were issued redundancy notices. Today the Trades Union Congress says that 27,000 more jobs in the renewables sector are at risk. At a time when the United Kingdom’s economy is far from recovered, the Tory...

The Green Book: New Directions for Liberals in Government

If The Green Book is a showcase of thinking within the Liberal Democrats, there is little to suggest a stop to their downward spiral. The book is an interesting exposition of why we need to move to a greener, low-carbon economy, and how we can get there. As well as...

The lights might stay on – but is anyone in?

Energy is a difficult issue for the UK. Not only are there the competing needs to keep the lights on and at the same time tackle climate change, there are also pressures from the energy industry to secure their profits and from consumers to keep energy prices low. But...