Government's climate change bragging is more myth than reality

James S Murray
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The government likes to think it is leading the fight on climate change but in truth we are lagging far behind our European cousins

One of Gordon Brown's first acts on coming into office – after having to write that disturbing memo about what to do in the event of nuclear attack – was to halt government use of the term "War on Terror"....

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