The UK’s domestic properties need transformation if we are to meet out climate targets – and we need a carbon army of trained people to undertake that task.

Trump is planning trade wars and sanctions that are bound to crash the world economy. But what he knows is that the resulting bailout will make the wealthy even more wealthy, yet again. His policy is both mad and entirely rational from his viewpoint.

Democracy is under threat around the world from the politics of hate peddled by the far-right. In political terms, the opposite of hate is care, and the problem is that care’s gone missing in the mainstream political narrative.

The government’s own data on fraud suggests it loses £58.8 billion a year, but that’s bound to be understated as there are no systems to detect fraud in two thirds of government activity. What is going on? 

The whole of the microeconomic theory of business is based on the idea that businesses maximise profit. They don’t, because doing so works for no-one. It’s a route to business failure. It’s maximizing happiness that works.

For decades we have suffered ministers who want to hold ministerial office to advance their own careers but not to deliver good government, in which they have no belief. Unsurprisingly, government that’s rotted from the top down is the result of that.

Politicians in developed countries are still obsessed by growth without realising that growth is history because as our incomes have grown, we consume fewer material items and more services, and the chance of productivity growth in services is limited, even with AI. The question is, when will politics being to reflect this new reality?

The governments accounts are incomplete and out of date and might fairly be described as CRAp – or completely rubbish approximations to the truth – so how can they govern properly?

We have only got one planet, and Trump wants to trash it. There are some things we cannot afford in this life. He is one of them.

The wealthy do – as author F. Scott Fitzgerald noted a century ago - think they’re different to us. The recent farmers’ protests proved that. Despite their wealth, farmers claimed impoverishment and demanded favours and subsidies from the state. It’s time we stopped putting up with their egocentric bleating.