Posts Tagged ‘government’
Big Ideas
OK, I said weeks ago that I was going to blog on the whole environment thing. I haven’t, but then I haven’t seriously blogged about anything in recent weeks… How remiss of me.
So, making some vain hope to stay true to my word, here are a few brief outlines of some ‘big ideas’ on the [...]
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Tags: big ideas, environment, government, Green, green taxes, ISO 9000, microgeneration, passivhaus, taking the lead
Taking the Lead
As I sat round a dinner table with a bunch of wonderful close friends the other night, and conversation meandered comfortably as it always does in these situations, the question of the environment was raised: Did we think that the issues of global warming and environmental sustainability were important for Christians?
I’m paraphrasing, and it’s a [...]
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Tags: BBC News, Christianity, climate change, environment, environmental, faith, GEO4, government, North West Passage, responsibility, sustainability
A problem of numbers
Now, I of all people know the difficulty that numbers can be, but I was somewhat surprised last night to learn that the Government had apparently mislaid 300,000 foreign nationals working here in the UK.
I don’t want to go into Government-bashing, but the whole issue does raise a few questions in my mind…
Every passport is [...]
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Tags: 300000, embarassment, estimates, figures, foreign nationals, foreign workers, government, Immigration, maths, Numbers, UK
Misrepresentation of the People
[UPDATE: sign the Downing Street petition to support the bill!]
While waiting for my weekly dose of “Heroes”, I was watching a programme last night called “The Ministry of Truth”. It was a wonderfully provocative documentary about a campaign to institute a new act of parliament to stop our politicians lying to us…
You can read about [...]
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Tags: BBC, Documentary, downing street petition, government, Heroes, last night's TV, lying, ministry of truth, misrepresentation of the people act, MPs, petition, standards in public life, truth

