+The big UN climate report, which grabbed the headlines yesterday has faded away faster than a used Olympic torch. Is it enough to say in a scientific report that things are getting worse, and that this is our last chance? At long last it is possible to imagine that many people can see it with their own eyes, which means of course that we have passed the turning point. Even the UK’s COP26 president, Tory minister Alok Sharma has been quoted as saying that the race now is simply to avoid the worst case scenario. I wonder what he means by that?
+Not every former UK prime minister before Thatcher automatically accepted a peerage. Since 1990 however we have had four of them who have preferred to stay out of the Lords. I don’t think that’s just about the company they would keep. It most probably has a lot to do with them not wishing to declare their earnings. In the case of David Cameron, who has trousered (allegedly) $7,000,000 for his efforts on behalf of failed finance business Greensill, his office have said that what he took was a ’private’ matter. I would humbly suggest that in future, all PMs (and ministers too) should be legally required to not only declare their earnings and from whom, but also the taxes paid on them, for a period of at least ten years after leaving office (should they live that long). Johnson it has been suggested wants to move on to make wads of cash as soon as he can relieve himself of the burden of running the country (sic).
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