Tag Archives: devolution

Wales as “first carbon negative country”? George Monbiot at Pierhead Sessions

22 March 2010 – 11:16 PM

George Monbiot speech part 1: George Monbiot speech part 2: Audience questions and George Monbiot’s answers: Here George Monbiot speaks about the Copenhagen summit, climate change and about Wales’ sustainable energy requirements, recorded at the Pierhead Sessions event in Cardiff. If you didn’t attend the event it’s well worth sitting through the whole thing. At [...]

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A Useful Fiction by Patrick Hannan

13 January 2010 – 9:00 PM

Sometimes I feel as if I’m always playing catch-up. This book “A Useful Fiction“, which came out last year, has just brought me reasonably up-to-date with devolution of the United Kingdom, particularly some of the finer details which I’d missed. It has many good insights into the idea of Britain and its democracy, or rather [...]

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