13 December 2006

When a story is a story, and when it's not a story.

I recently wrote more about the extreme end of the direct action environmental movement in the UK for The First Post. The peg for the story was intially going to be Gordon Brown's decision to increase road taxes for the biggest-polluting vehicles, a development that was widely trailed.
Unfortunately the leaks turned out to be, well, if not wrong, then a little bit, uh, wrong. Pundits deducted that Brown is still testing the limits of political acceptability of green taxes. After all, in 2000, truckers blockaded the roads to protest at rises in fuel duty. Brown gave in on that one and froze it - only to unfreeze it last week. So far, rebellion has not broken out on the streets of London, or anywhere else in the country.

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