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Energy bill rises could have been avoided
Posted on 1:21pm Tuesday 11th November 2008
I don’t want to have to say ‘I told you so’ Bradford Council, but I did tell you.
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Borrow to beat climate change
Posted on 3:20pm Wednesday 15th October 2008
Nationalisation is well and truly out of the bag now after the massive action taken to help banks in Britain and around the world. If it is for the good of the country’s economy to take companies into public ownership then it should be done.
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Nation needs those billions, not the bankers
Posted on 3:51pm Wednesday 24th September 2008
And they say Communism was bad! Give me a system that at least provides a roof over the heads of its people and food and transport and jobs.
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Fuel price rises can't be insulated
Posted on 1:49pm Thursday 11th September 2008
The good news is that today the Government has committed a large amount of money to improving the insulation of people’s homes across the country in their latest move to ease the credit crunch - the bad news is that this is a long-term plan and the vulnerable in society like old age pensioners and the poor face a miserable winter trying to pay escalating fuel bills.
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Scuttle this coal commitment
Posted on 5:35pm Friday 8th August 2008
Margaret Thatcher can be blamed for many things during her time in office, one of which is the decimation of the coal industry in Britain.
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Live and let live
Posted on 2:05pm Friday 25th July 2008
It was a relief to see that the Government decided not to go ahead with the proposed badger cull in England that would have seen many thousands of these fantastic and much-loved animals trapped and killed.
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Paying the price for oil addiction
Posted on 1:12pm Tuesday 8th July 2008
The chickens are certainly coming home to roost across the country as homeowners and businesses come to terms with the rising cost of fuel and the effects that it is having on how we lead our lives.
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Nature calls - wrongly
Posted on 3:09pm Tuesday 24th June 2008
TV and movie producers and advertisers are fond of tugging at the heartstrings whenever they can to provoke empathy and mood or evoke ideals and character. Everything is dragooned into selling ideas and products and the natural world, like children, beautiful women and cute animals, is no exception.
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Fare dodgers take everyone for a ride
Posted on 12:39pm Wednesday 21st May 2008
As I've said before, I commute to work into Bradford on the train most days and feel lucky and happy that I don't have to struggle in through the rush-hour traffic.
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No smoke without ire
Posted on 12:42pm Thursday 24th April 2008
When the smoking ban came into force there were dire warnings of what it would do to the income of pubs and clubs and other places where people gather socially.
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Drivers paying the penalty
Posted on 2:54pm Wednesday 9th April 2008
There's been a welcome sight in the last couple of days of yellow penalty notices sprouting on the windscreens of cars parked illegally in the pedestrian zone next to the New Victoria hotel in Bradford city centre, a habit that been allowed to go unpunished for quite a while.
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Taking stock on my blogging year
Posted on 2:01pm Friday 4th April 2008
A year on from the start of this blog and it's time to take stock of how I've been doing in my efforts to live a greener life.
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