Would it be a forlorn hope to expect foreign governments to play their part?

ECONOMIST: Letters

The call by a former Tory heavyweight for Britain to leave the EU has made that a forlorn hope.

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Well, (and this is a forlorn hope) it would be helpful to report on the ongoing debate over science and policy without treating climate change like a rancorous "he said, she said" political debate.

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Although some of the nuclear plants will be put back on line, it seems that the hope that nuclear energy would offer a measure of energy independence in the long term seems forlorn.

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