07/04/10 "I'm the only MP who has built a real green home "

It was the birth of my older children that originally propelled me to want to change the world from inside Parliament. Now it is the birth of my youngest that convinces me that change has to come from elsewhere.

read more | back to top

28/03/10 - "House Magazine - Eco House"

I no longer know whether my attempt to turn a derelict shell into a house that generates 50% more energy than it consumes is a folly, a vision, an obsession…or all three. I may now more when it is finished in the summer.

read more| back to top

16/03/10 - "The Meadows of hope and inspiration"

I no longer know whether my attempt to turn a derelict shell into a house that generates 50% more energy than it consumes is a folly, a vision, an obsession…or all three. I may now more when it is finished in the summer. To make sense of it may require a different....

read more| back to top

June 2009 "House magazine- Taking the poor into a low energy future"

During our time in office, the Labour Government has made some genuinely radical commitments on both the eradication of fuel poverty and our response to climate change. This makes it all the more frustrating to be confronted by two.......

read more| back to top

22/03/08 "Press release on global warming"

Graham Allen and Alan Simpson have both committed themselves to the Climate Change Bill which will be introduced in the House of Commons. Graham Allen said 'Global Warming is the biggest problem being faced by mankind and this Bill starts the process of setting the British Government serious targets to help make a real impact on this threat.

read more | back to top

06/06/07 "Independent - Addicted To Osama"

Last weekend Gordon Brown’s office were furiously briefing the press that the new Brown, post Blair, era would be a ‘listening’ Labour government; one committed to winning hearts and minds rather than playing fast and loose with the democratic process.

read more | back to top

13/03/07 - "Independent Article -Climate cheating"

Political leaders of all parties may not yet understand the urgency of responding to climate change, but at least they understand that at the next general election there will be a race to turn carbon credits into electoral credits. Bless them.

read more |back to top

11/03/07 - "Mail on Sunday article - Cheating on the planet"

For the last 20 years the free‐market Right have dominated the global political agenda to an extent where arrogance vastly outstripped intellect. They were able to do so partly because the Left failed to address the ways in which capital was seeking to disengage....

read more| back to top

22/02/07 - "Mail on Sunday article - In the land of the blind"

It was the birth of my older children that originally propelled me to want to change the world from inside parliament. Now it is the birth of my youngest that convinces me that change has to come from elsewhere. I had no illusions about where I would fit.....

read more | back to top

08/01/07 - "Mirror Article - MP's in call to put Britain in dock over Iraq"

FORTY MP's have called on UN chief Kofi Annan to haul Britain through the
International Court of Justice over the Iraq war. The cross‐party group believes Tony Blair was in breach of the Charter of the United Nations when he joined America to invade Iraq.

read more | back to top

28/04/06 "Resurgence Article - The long & winding road"

I suppose I grew up with John, Paul, George, Ringo and ‘Resurgence’. It just took me a while to catch up with the seeds of exciting irreverence that Resurgence was to plant in my life. The magazine’s explorations turned conventional ideas......

read more | back to top

10/03/06 "Labours coaliton of confusion"

This week’s parliamentary debate on the Education and Inspections Bill could eave the Labour government in a huge mess, with frightening echoes of one of the least edifying periods of our own history.

read more| back to top

30/03/05 - "Independent Article - Labour MP's to fight on anti-war ticket"

Labour MP's who opposed the Iraq war are to defy Tony Blair by making it a key "issue of
trust" at the general election expected on 5 May. In a setback for the Prime Minister's attempt to "move on" from Iraq two years after the military action......

read more | back to top

28/05/05 - "Eco House"

I no longer know whether my attempt to turn a derelict shell into a house that generates 50% more energy than it consumes is a folly, a vision, an obsession…or all three. I may now more when it is finished in the summer. To make sense of it may require a different....

read more| back to top

18/02/05 "NEA - Fuel Poverty"

Our whole understanding of fuel poverty is being squeezed in 3 ways. Weather patterns are becoming increasingly erratic. We have to deal with health risks both from the cold in winter and heat in summer. Fuel poverty will become as much to do with staying......

read more|back to top

17/03/03 - "Tribune article - Bombing Iraq"

So, fed up with waiting, angry at being unable to bully or bribe the UN into supporting a second resolution, George Bush has launched a war on Iraq. He intended to do so all along. Forget that the Weapons Inspectors offered to deliver.....

read more | back to top

03/05/03 "Independent - Letter to Tony"

Tony, The council election results weren’t sent to spoil your birthday celebrations, just to change them. There’s no point in sticking candles in a cake that’s past its sell by date, so why waste time on a re‐ branding of New Labour?

read more| back to top

May 2002 "Energy Conservation"

Friday is 'D' day. Des Turner's Energy Conservation Bill comes back to the Commons for its Report Stage with overwhelming parliamentary support, but only a 50‐50 chance of getting through.

read more | back to top

03/10/01 - "Independent - Bomb & We Loose"

Whatever the press briefings have been saying, Britain has not yet declared war on Afghanistan, nor should we do so. Every day that I wake to the news that no bombing has taken place is a celebration of the restraining role Tony Blair as played with the US....

read more | back to top