There's room for a green middle ground in the UK's culture wars

By Graham Lawton

A COUPLE of weeks ago, I had an experience that was new to me, and which proved both infuriating and enlightening: I was harangued on Twitter for not being green enough. Last month, I wrote about driving my sick cat to and from the vet, and how the gridlocked traffic looked like a depressing taste of our post-pandemic future. “Shocked by yr column blaming traffic,” my chastiser tweeted at me. “You ARE the traffic; have you tried cycling?”

Deeply unfair. But it gave me a glimpse of what many people must feel when their behaviour falls short of the standards …