Letters to the Editor

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a weekly column in a major newspaper? Well I haven’t got one. So I write letters to The Guardian and Observer newspapers, and the odd column for the local newspaper, The Sentinel. Here’s a selection of Guardian and Observer letters:

28 December 2012, on cuts and New Labour
New Labour, cuts, and local government

25 December 2012, comparing public and private sector jobs
Public and private sector jobs

1 October 2012, on ‘solving’ the climate challenge
The need for an eco-state

19 August 2012, on Russia’s Pussy Riots
Pussy riot sentences

24 April 2012, on Lords reform
Sortition for the House of Lords

22 January 2012, on the Green House alternative to ‘austerity or growth’
Beyond Austerity or Growth

10 November 2011, on democracy, politics, protest
Europe’s shameful democratic deficit

9 February 2011, on Egypt, public spaces and the ‘big society’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/09/paying-for-camerons-big-society?INTCMP=SRCH

27 January 2011, on Chinese hotel door sign http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/27/control-orders-shakespeare-35mm-canisters-fish?INTCMP=SRCH

26 October 2010, on public vs private http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/26/public-private-in-it-together

23 December 2009, on Climate Change and THFC (again) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/dec/23/snow-grit-spurs-scenario

21 December 2009, on 10:10 and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/dec/21/wrap-reindeer-copenhagen-climate

… to which there was a reply from Ian McNally: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/dec/22/british-airways-eurostar-stoke-queen … and see my reply to McNally above (23 December 2009)

1 August 2009, on Sky’s James Murdoch’s Edinburgh Festival speech about the BBC http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/aug/31/james-murdoch-bbc-regulation

5 August 2009, on the UK Citizenship process http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/05/lead-letters-immigration-woolas

19 April 2009, on Will Hutton’s anti-environmentalism http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/19/letters-climate-change

12 February 2009, on Mark Wallinger’s 50m tall White Horse, due for construction in Kent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/feb/12/letters

25 November 2008, on ‘Quality’ Assurance in UK universities (again) http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/25/education-letters

8 July 2008, on ‘Quality’ Assurance in UK universities http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2289584,00.html

3 December 2007, on social science in policy-making http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2220760,00.html

15 May 2007, on Antarctica http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2079516,00.html

2 May 2007, on voting Green in the local elections http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2070066,00.html

31 January 2007, on Climate Change http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2002339,00.html

15 September 2006, on Climate Change, voting Green, and Al Gore http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1872931,00.html

9 July 2006, on Bjorn Lomborg http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1816207,00.html

23 March 2006, on Hobbes and Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1737137,00.html

31 January 2006, on Local Sustainability http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1698405,00.html

5 September 2005, on Hurricane Katrina
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,,1562800,00.html

6 November 2005, on Tony Blair, Transport and Climate Change
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1635354,00.html

4 November 2005, on M6 expansion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1627157,00.html

20 November 2005, on Sir David Attenborough and population growth
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1646645,00.html

1 June 2005, on the politics of nuclear power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1496303,00.html

16 March 2005, on New Labour and climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/mar/16/guardianletters.climatechange

8 February 2005, on congestion charge failure in Edinburgh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1426732,00.html

31 January 2005, on problems with economic growth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1402111,00.html