The amazing President of the Maldives has now not only committed his sinking country of the Maldives to going zero carbon by 2050, but has announced his cabinet will be meeting underwater! (more…)
Hi everyone, my name’s Isabel, this is my first post for the P&P blog, I hope you like it, and if you don’t let me know why!
This week signals the sad and true end of my gap year! I have managed not to fly anywhere, and to resist the temptations of sunnier climes and different cultures (it’s been difficult), so instead I moved to London, and did everything I could to learn about the political system I am constantly trying to effect. (more…)
I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that our society has a ridiculously narrow concept of politics. We tend to talk as if ‘the political’ is what happens only in officially sanctioned avenues of political advocacy: elections, what goes on at Westminster or in Brussels, the to and fro of diplomacy within intergovernmental organizations etc.