Miranda Green

2 weeks ago | listennotes.com | Steve Richards |Miranda Green |Tim Montgomerie |Iain Martin

Inspired by the UK’s most famous voter, Brenda from Bristol, four close watchers of politics agree - and freely disagree - about the twists and turns of the General Election 2024 - and beyond. With Steve Richards, broadcaster and author, Tim Montgomerie, founder of Conservative Home and a serial political entrepreneur, Iain Martin, Times columnist and Miranda Green of the Financial Times. We hope you agree with us, rather than with Brenda, that it’s a useful addition to the debate.

1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Miranda Green

Last fall residents of Mandan, North Dakota woke up to an unfamiliar newspaper at their doorsteps. The broadsheet Central ND News, printed on newsprint, had columns, standard-sized articles, and headlines. But there was an odd theme to its stories. Many referenced events that had happened nearly a decade earlier, when protestors had swarmed the rural community to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. “On This Date in 2016: Dakota Access Pipeline protesters gather in Morton County,” read one headline.

2 months ago | huffpost.com | Miranda Green

When Donald Trump was reelected president, civil servants working at the agencies that oversee federal environmental regulations and prosecute corporate polluters anticipated that many things would soon be reversed, just like the last time.

2 months ago | huffpost.com | Miranda Green

LOS ANGELES — The deadly wildfires in California have taken a lot of Donald Trump’s attention in his first week as president, and although he traveled to Los Angeles to see the damage, his tone in addressing the crisis has been more of blame than of seeking immediate solutions. He has attacked Democratic politicians, and criticized supposed poor forest management and failed water policies. But there’s one much lesser-known party that he has also targeted: a tiny fish called the delta smelt.

Jan 18, 2025 | huffpost.com | Miranda Green

As houses smoldered and the breadth of destruction from fires that raged through Los Angeles was just beginning to become clear, real estate developer Rick Caruso called into a local Fox station to cast the first stone. “It looks like we are in a third world country here,” Caruso told the on-air correspondents on Jan. 8.