Blog posts tagged "environment"

June 1, 2011 8:39 am 34 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on the environmental advantages of cycling as the world's worst global emissions figures are published, and asks if we're leaving it too late to tackle?

November 10, 2009 4:11 pm No Comments

Jon Snow tells the story of trees being planted on a busy street in north London.

July 27, 2009 10:15 am 7 Comments

The victory on the Champs Elysees by Britain’s Mark Cavendish in the final stage of the Tour de France, coupled with the amazing fourth place by Olympic gold medalist Bradley Wiggins seals a brilliant year for British cycling. it was a year that began with the record medals haul in Beijing last summer.

July 23, 2009 4:33 pm No Comments

When history comes to review the Brown government, it has every chance of proving an unhappy event. Gordon Brown’s takeover from Tony Blair settled uneasily into a sad and dispossessed period of ‘readjustment’ to the global financial catastrophe. But one of history’s other asides in reviewing the Brown government may yet come to rest on [...]

June 16, 2009 11:50 am No Comments

Tomorrow official unemployment figures will show another alarming rise in people out of work. So far the private sector has born the brunt, but today the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is warning the public sector is likely to be badly hit, losing 350,000 over the next five years.