Daily View 2×2: 22 September 2009

2 Big Stories

Airlines to halve emissions by 2050

The Guardian reports:

The British Airways chief executive, Willie Walsh, will unveil an agreement between airlines, airports and aircraft companies to cut emissions to 50% below 2005 levels by 2050. In a bid to seize the initiative from environmental groups clamouring for higher taxes on the industry, the plan will be presented to world leaders at the United Nations forum on climate change in New York.

Baronness Scotland Survives

Says The Times:

Gordon Brown has today spared his Attorney General the sack for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper, but told Baroness Scotland to apologise “profusely” over the affair.

2 Must-read Blog Posts

Jonathan Calder looks at Nick Clegg’s Liberal Moment.
Liberal Vision’s Angela Harbutt on a Tory councillor’s comeuppance.

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2 Comments

  • Terry Gilbert 22nd Sep '09 - 11:21pm

    Surely Patricia Scotland has to go? You can’t bring in a law, break it, even inadvertantly (and unless I’m wrong we only have her word for that?) and expect to remain the nation’s chief law officer!

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