Polanski warns Burnham is kicking the can down the road

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Polanski warns Burnham is kicking the can down the road

On Monday 29 June, Andy Burnham finally gave us a fleshed out idea of what he has planned for the country. The answer – essentially – was more of the same. And while he is proposing a few actual changes, they won’t scratch the surface of the massive problems facing us. One person to recognise this was Zack Polanski, who said the following: The can doesn't need to kicked down the road, again. People have had enough of tinkering around the edges. Bold changes now. We are in crisis. Rent controls, wealth taxes, public ownership of what is ours. Real change.…

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Why major polluters need kicking out of football 

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Why major polluters need kicking out of football 

With extreme weather and war wreaking havoc on football in communities around the world, the sport’s entanglement with fossil fuels further endangers the game itself… as well as players, fans and everyone else besides. But it doesn’t have to be this way, as a series of recent reports spell out. Players and pitches in peril Player safety has been a “hot topic” with this year’s FIFA Men’s World Cup underway. Climate Central estimates that the number of “extremely hot” June and July days in host cities has roughly tripled since North America last hosted the tournament in the 1990s. The heat…

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