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The Amazon fires are as much a political story as an environmental one

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

We do not yet know which 100 citizens will make it to the ‘Citizens’ Assembly’ to be chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, which will look at ways of preventing a no-deal Brexit. So we cannot yet judge whether the organisers have come up with a system of selection which improves on the representative powers of parliament.

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