Author Archives: Natalie Bennett

A Labour? government

October 1, 2006 – 10:05 am

How is it that Britain has a “Labour” government whose first thought is to privatise everything …

Ministers are proposing an extraordinary scheme to tackle climate change in which the Amazon rainforest would be turned into an international trust and its trees sold to individuals and groups.
Plans for the wholesale “privatisation” of the rainforest will be raised by David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, at a summit in Mexico this week.
The scheme, endorsed by Tony Blair, aims to protect the plants and wildlife from logging. About 13 million hectares of the world’s forests are lost annually to deforestation, according to the Government.

Miliband admits there might be “sovereignty” issues…

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Interesting media times…

September 30, 2006 – 9:41 pm

A group of clearly and openly rightwing UK (well actually probably London) bloggers is started what looks like a seriously funded internet TV politics channel, 18 Doughty Street, which as Channel 4 points out (looking rather worried, as well they might be) isn’t subject to the same regulation as broadcast TV. They say they will be openly right wing but open to other voices – so it will be interesting to see how it works out …

And will there be a broadly leftwing equivalent?

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A year of Parthian excavation

September 30, 2006 – 9:36 pm

From the inbox: the latest report of the excavation of Old Nisa, a Partian site in Turkmenistan, has been posted. Some lovely architectural detail…

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A perfect metaphor

September 30, 2006 – 4:08 pm

Someone just described me as having “more projects than a four-armed paper-hanger”. I like it. It is apt; perhaps a little too apt, but then the best images slice in a little.

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“Pigkeeper and poet”

September 30, 2006 – 3:43 pm

What a lovely combination. The London Library has a small display of some of the life membership application forms that it has received over the years – there are all the usual ones you’d except, from Bernard Shaw to Virginia Woolf, but also featured is “Mrs Harley Moseley”, who joined in 1956 from St Mawes, Truro, Cornwall, listing her occupation as “pigkeeper and poet”.

Google has failed me on this one … can anyone supply any info?

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Countryside apartheid?

September 29, 2006 – 11:12 pm

Over on My London Your London I’ve a review of a delightfully subtle dramatic exploration of Trevor Phillip’s “passive apartheid of the countryside” remark – White Open Spaces. Get your ticket soon – I suspect judging by the press night audience reaction word of mouth will make it a near-sellout.

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