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The eyes of the world’s environmentalists are increasingly turning towards the vast and relatively untapped oil resources of the Canadian state of Alberta, about which a policy debate is unfolding in multiple jurisdictions that could be a definitive moment in understanding mankind’s relationship with natural resources. The reason that the usually little considered topic of Albertan development . . . → Read More: Facts and fictions The UK is currently in the grip of a ‘deficit crisis’. It is told that if it does not decrease public spending, then its economy will falter and, worst of all, it might have its credit rating reduced. These conclusions, promulgated by a Conservative Government that some might suspect of having an ulterior interest in downsizing . . . → Read More: The inconsistent tyranny of numbers The history of Britain’s quangos is a vexed one. They exist in a space where independence and unaccountability overlap – designed to work at ‘arm’s length’ from ministerial influence, depending on your perspective they can be regarded as released from political interference or as removed from democratic accountability. It is an open secret that, as with any . . . → Read More: Independently illegitimate? |
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