Isonomia

By Emma Gowing and Peter Jones

Christmas wouldn’t be complete these days without an array of seasonal articles and blogs from environmental correspondents highlighting the enormous escalation in waste that our annual tendency to excess brings with it. There’s of course the 100 square kilometres of wrapping paper that will be thrown away, and the 50 million bin bags of food waste.

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by Emma Gowing

I saw Sir Ronald Cohen on Channel 4 news a couple of weeks ago talking about the launch of Big Society Capital (BSC), of which he is the chairman. There was something about the interview that didn’t ring quite true. Not that Cohen said anything especially controversial or problematic – it was the concept of the fund that just seemed like a mistake to me.

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