Charles Moore Charles Moore

The Spectator’s Notes | 17 March 2007

Every winter morning I take a scuttle down to the cellar, fill it with coal and carry it up to light the fire in my study

Every winter morning I take a scuttle down to the cellar, fill it with coal and carry it up to light the fire in my study. The coal-dust clings to my shoes and so, as the carpets testify, I have a carbon footprint. David Cameron wants to make it — and everyone else’s — smaller.

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