Nuclear power
Pretending to listen
Friday February 16, 2007
The Guardian
Promises to consult slip easily from the lips of politicians who have already made up their minds. The pursuit of debate and consensus can disguise a deeper insistence that only one course of action is right, and what is called consultation is then nothing more than a delayed exercise in justification. That is as true of the present pretence of a debate about the replacement of Trident, after the decision to (...)