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Why Is the Science Museum Laundering a Coal Giant’s Reputation?

Jan 9, 2025 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

“Misleading and untrue claims have been made by some protesters about the Science Museum and the sponsor of Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery,” the museum wrote in an email last week to those who had questioned why it was advertising a company whose directors are wanted for fraud in the US. “The gallery focuses on the urgent energy transition the world needs to see and its sponsor, Adani Green Energy, is a major renewable energy business.
It Isn’t Only Justin Welby That Should Go – So Should the Church of England | Novara Media

Nov 20, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

It’s easy to dismiss Justin Welby’s resignation as a story about historic abuse in an increasingly irrelevant religious sect – sad for the victims, glad he’s gone, but mostly irrelevant to modern Britain. After all, the Church of England’s community of regular attendees is just 1.7% of England’s population. More people go to Mosques and professional football matches every week. In England and Wales in 2022, by my sums, only 14% of marriages and 18% of funerals were conducted by the C of E.
Alex Salmond, A Predator Who Changed Scottish Politics Forever

Oct 15, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

The first thing to say about Alex Salmond is that I believe his victims. The evidence that he sexually assaulted numerous women may not have reached the evidential bar necessary for criminal conviction – too often, it doesn’t. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t sexually assault numerous women. It may not have been proved beyond reasonable doubt. But it seems very likely that it happened.
Alex Salmond, A Predator Who Changed Scottish Politics Forever | Nova…

Oct 15, 2024 | archive.is | Adam Ramsay

The first thing to say about Alex Salmond is that I believe his victims. The evidence that he sexually assaulted numerous women may not have reached the evidential bar necessary for criminal conviction – too often, it doesn’t. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t sexually assault numerous women. It may not have been proved beyond reasonable doubt. But it seems very likely that it happened.
Reporters Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Labour’s Freebie Fiasco

Sep 23, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

When I first asked the Labour party in 2023 why its (then) shadow cabinet members and staff kept accepting luxury gifts, the press officer I spoke to was baffled as to why I thought this was a story. It ended up being a rather embarrassing incident: I explained in what was perhaps an overly passionate tone. She felt I was shouting at her, and hung up. It’s the only time I can remember losing my professional rag with someone, and I apologised.
Keir Starmer Needs Checks and Balances. Britain Has Few

Jul 24, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

On Tuesday, Keir Starmer suspended the whip from seven Labour MPs because they voted for an amendment regretting that the Kings’ speech didn’t include a promise to scrap the two-child benefit cap. In itself, this act is extraordinary. I don’t think Tony Blair or Gordon Brown ever suspended the whip because an MP rebelled on a policy matter.
People Hate Politicians. The Greens Could Change That

Jul 15, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

Every recent general election has been defined by people’s frustration with the Westminster system. It’s hard to see the Tories winning in 2010 without the expenses scandal, and the way it brought to the surface deeper frustrations with the Westminster system. 2015 was shaped by the asymmetric relationship between the nations of the UK – with David Cameron scaring English voters with the idea that Ed Miliband would be a puppet for Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.
Here’s What the Greens Should Do Next

Jul 8, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

I spent the night of Thursday 6 May 2010 in Norwich town hall, exhausted and dispirited. I’d spent most of my spare time over the previous months travelling there on always-delayed late night trains from Oxford to knock on doors and deliver leaflets in the hope of getting the Green party’s then-young then-deputy leader elected. Local election results had suggested it was possible.
What on Earth Happened to the SNP?

Jul 6, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

The Scottish National party had a gruesome night, losing 36 seats to Labour and three to the Lib Dems (with one still counting). The fact that they had one gain – from Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross, no less – won’t be much of a consolation. In fact, according to polling expert John Curtice, the only reason Labour’s vote share across the UK is up at all on 2019 is that it surged by 17% across Scotland. In England, it held steady, and in Wales, it actually fell.
This Election Must Be the Last One With Our Absurd Voting System

Jul 2, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Adam Ramsay

Criticism of our ridiculous voting system often focuses on mathematical fairness. People argue against first-past-the-post, or simple plurality, because it can give a party with around 40% of the votes an enormous majority of seats – as we are likely to see on Friday. The same system can also deliver a distinct minority, as Jeremy Corbyn found in 2017. In a sensible system, vote share and seat share would align.