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If Britain is to reach net-zero carbon emissions, decarbonising transportation will be one of its biggest challenges. Yesterday Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, unveiled the Government’s strategy, showing the enormity of the task. The headline news is the possibility of pay-as-you-go driving taxes and levies on jet fuel. It’s the infrastructure requirements, however, that could be the real battleground. Alan Tovey explores the immense hurdles to full electrification that ministers are yet to properly address.
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Clarity on foreign holidays seems further away than ever after yesterday’s announcement that the Balearic Islands will be put on the amber travel list from Monday, just a fortnight after going green. Also caught up in the travel chaos is the Government’s own vaccine tsar, Kate Bingham, because her jabs were administered as part of a trial, meaning they aren’t recognised by the NHS app. The 40,000 people in the same boat as Dame Kate are also joined by millions of Britons who received AstraZeneca vaccines made in India, with the news that the EU could take weeks to authorise Indian-made jabs for travel.
The Church of England has long struggled with shrinking congregations and growing indifference from the public. In response, it is pushing for ever more modernisation, yet might the cure be worse than the disease? In her latest searing column, Allison Pearson criticises the Church for seemingly abandoning its values, its congregants and the very buildings so woven into the nation’s identity, history and faith.
Finally, moving to Andalusia, with its glorious weather, food and landscapes, is the dream of many in Britain. But the reality isn’t always so straightforward. Expat life can be isolating and misery-inducing. That was the case for Gayle Macdonald, who tells the story of how it drove both her and her husband to alcoholism and how they clawed their way back out of it.
Chris
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| | | | | 'The boredom of expat life in Spain drove me to alcoholism': Gayle Macdonald made her dream move to the Andalusian hills, but soon hit rock bottom. Here's her story. (Free to read) |
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