Water Wars
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The trouble with water – and there is trouble with water – is that they’re not making any more of it. They’re not making any less, but no more either…
2007
Waterside Views
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I have always been drawn to the water. I was conceived in room 16 of the art deco Midland Hotel overlooking Morecambe Bay and spent the first part of my…
Free Range Kids
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Ever since I was at John Prescott’s Urban Summit at Brindley Place, Birmingham in late 2002, and was collected by my wife and youngest lad on our way up…
Al Gore Gets Current
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These are desperate times for those who look for heroes and prophets. If there is such a thing as a hero today it is – to paraphrase Camus – the…
In Real Time
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When Kiefer Sutherland walks into the room, I’m sitting on one end of a long wooden table covered in papers and bottles. He sits down warily and I slap…
Made In Sudan
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Fair trade, micro-enterprise development and aid are bringing change to the fortunes of developing-world communities. But there is another approach to tackling poverty which, if widely implemented, would…
Designed To Last
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Money was short but you wouldn’t have thought so from the way we all looked. My mum and nan always looked wonderfully cool in their printed summer dresses, all made…
Spend Yourself
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Is there a more infuriating coup in a conversation between an idealist and a cynic than the phrase, ‘But it’s human nature to want what other people have’? The cynic…
Inner Sparkle
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Very briefly, Alek Wek is almost a refugee again. In early December, the supermodel spends a troubled Monday night in a London hotel, her passport too full to take a…
