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Blair optimistic over climate change deal
US attitudes towards climate change are in the process of “a quantum shift,” Tony Blair told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Saturday, arguing that the world may be “on the verge of a breakthrough” on the issue.
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“Workers of all lands, unite” is one of socialism’s more hopeful slogans. Right now, though, there are renewed calls for bigger, cross-border unions in the face of globalisation.
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Urban sprawl and a waste of energy

In the US Sunbelt there are new suburbs in which every house sits on an acre of land. Without cars these places are uninhabitable, writes Christopher Caldwell.