Tag Archives: Alastair Harper
Stop worrying about mystery lobbyists, the green economy is winning
This post first appeared on Business Green. On Friday afternoon, a spoof twitter account sent the great and the good of the energy world into a frenzy of speculation. It was the climax of an odd week, during which everyone … Continue reading
The hidden giants of infrastructure
This post first appeared on BusinessGreen. Industrial strategy hasn’t been fashionable for a long time. Anyone romantic enough to have spent February 14th watching Harold Wilson Night on BBC Parliament will have seen the last moment when industrial strategy took … Continue reading
Security tips, ministers ‘gagging for it’ and the end of a barren consensus
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and roving party conference diarist. This is his final diary posting from the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, first published on Business Green. Well, thank God that’s over with. Three … Continue reading
Conference diary: making the papers
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and roving party conference diarist. Here his is first posting from the Conservative’s party conference in Birmingham, first published on Business Green. Minutes after they read it on the cover of The … Continue reading
Conference diary: all together now
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and roving party conference diarist. Here his is second posting from the Labour’s conference in Manchester, first published on Business Green. There is a serious problem with the party conference system … Continue reading
Conference diary: does Labour do green?
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and, while the season is with us, roving party conference diarist. Here his is first posting from the Labour’s conference in Manchester, first published on Business Green. Manchester is a … Continue reading
Conference diary: the sideshow must go on
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and roving party conference diarist. Here his is second posting from the Liberal Democrat’s conference in Brighton, first published on Business Green. There seem to be three approaches when … Continue reading
Conference diary: Liberal Democrats, day 1
Alastair Harper is Green Alliance’s senior policy adviser on Political Leadership and, while the season is with us, roving party conference diarist. Here is his first report from the Liberal Democrat’s conference in Brighton. This post was first published on Business … Continue reading
Don’t turn off the future
This article first appeared in the New Statesman. There is a sector where our economy is not dying, but flying. Somewhere that the UK continues to dominate the global stage, creating the deals, skills, services and products in an area … Continue reading
Austerity hasn’t made people care less about the environment
This article, by Green Alliance’s Alastair Harper, about our new report What do people really think about the environment? first appeared on guardian.co.uk on 10 April. A few days ago, in a stuffy, closed-windowed meeting, I stared at a projection of Powerpoint slides, … Continue reading
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