Tom Burke’s political commentary: ‘Greenest government’ neglects politics in quest for managerial efficiency

ENDS Report 433, p.54, February 2011. The coalition government failed to make a political case before announcing the sell-off of England’s state-owned woodlands. It will do well to learn the lesson of what followed. In November 1999 I wrote an article, “Sleepwalking to Seattle”, for the Times. I pointed out […]

Tom Burke’s political commentary: marriage made in heaven or a crash waiting to happen

ENDS Report 432, p. 51, January 2011. The growth and green agendas are at last converging. How smooth their meeting will be depends on the government’s ability to pursue multiple policies that work with, not against, each other. A hard lesson from nearly 40 years of environmentalism is that there […]