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AST week, the local-election results dominated the headlines and, dramatic as they were, they over shadowed the result of a court case that may well influence British politics even more fundamentally. It all started more than two years ago, when campaigners became alarmed at the failure of the Government to explain how it was going to deliver its climate change programme—particularly when they looked