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Rishi Sunak calls for stability and unity as he wins contest to be PM is Aunty's phrasing, and that seems plausible. Effectively this ...

I must be getting old; or the GW wars are getting old; it seems to be more obituaries than births nowadays. The latest to shuffle off this ...

This summer, looking for something free to read on my Kindle, I stumbled upon Francis Bacon, and thought: why not? The answer turns out to ...

Not so much to report this time. Summary: before: And after: In more detail... the one on the left is mine, and healthy; the...

Compare and contrast two Twits: Embassy of Ukraine to the UK : Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will forever remain in our hearts as pattern ...

In a recent interview in New York Times Magazine, energy expert and polymath Vaclav Smil found himself quoting Stoat... that's not quit...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of a remarkable research paper on global warming, says CarbonBrief :  Man-made Carbon Dioxide and the “Gre...

It has been a long dry summer in Europe. This is obvious enough from the news for anyone paying attention; this post merely collects some ob...

I'm back; I trust you missed me. Below, Le Grand Combin, very nice. No I didn't climb it.   Switzerland again; some climbing, som...

Or,  Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’ . The latest fad is to argue about the tone of reporting, and co...

Having had fun with the Dork Side , I suppose I really ought to dunk on everyone's favourite uncle, James "Gaia" Lovelock. Wh...

Tasteless but I couldn't resist. See-also  Joseph D'Aleo suffers soft delete or  Science advances one funeral at a time . Or perhap...

Reference  Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph D'Aleo . Humiliatingly for Smokey Joe, the final delete reason is "The result w...

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is a book by Joseph " Creative Destruction " Schumpeter : "one of the most famous, cont...

Kavanaugh’s views on EPA’s climate authority and  Kavanaugh's other dangerous assault - on the environment? refer. Spoiler: I have li...

I've said this before 1 , alas in the middle of posts that no-one read, so I'm going to say it again to make it more explicit: I di...

SCOTUS strikes again:  Court strikes down Maine’s ban on using public funds at religious schools . And, as far as I can tell, they were cor...

Another year over and deeper in debt ... this is Caius M2, though it was hard to distinguish them from M1 1 . The separation at the catch is...

In the face of momentous events people who really ought to know better are saying silly things like "Shocking: So far, governments ha...

Via Bryan Caplan  but more specifically https://philpapers.org/rec/BREWPM . Generally I hate stuff with wanky philosophic words in it, but ...