Monthly Archives: June 2008
Bring back milk floats
The gentle whine of the electric milk float is a sound I remember vividly from my childhood slumbers. This quiet and efficient vehicle delivered our daily milk early each morning. In many parts of the UK they also delivered bread, fruit-juice and other perishables. The beauty of an electric milk float is that it can [...]
clarity on oil futures
I would like to echo Graham and point you to Rob’s excellent interview with David Fleming for brilliant insights on where we are with liquid fuels and some options for the medium term. Of course this is all ridiculously hopeful given Brown and Bush’s sabre rattling today which makes me so angry at their stupidity. [...]
power to the peasants
George Monbiot has written one of the best things he’s done for a while. I feel so passionately about the importance of a peasant culture that the lack of possibility for it in England was a major reason I left the UK (along with not wanting to pay taxes for nuclear weapons, the oppressive police [...]
future scenarios