Just over a year ago on this blog I warned of the dangerous consequences for democracy of declaring “emergencies”. “Taking decisive action against ‘the enemy’”, I said then, “whether [it be] Coronavirus or climate change, comes at a cost....

A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay here titled ‘Re-Socialising a Vaccinated World Requires Political Struggle‘. My argument was that as the authoritarian regulation of public life extends and continues, the erosion of collective and individual freedoms will...

The Eduard Brückner Prize has been established for outstanding interdisciplinary achievements in climate research. The award is named after the outstanding geographer Eduard Brückner (1862-1927), who, in addition to researching the ice age climate in the Alps and the...