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"The exception proves the rule" is a well-known phrase with more than one meaning ; the one I take uses "prove" in the ...

My title isn't really related to this post in any clear way; Google recently reminded me of this photo that I took in Amiens St Quentin...

Regulatory capture is a familiar concept, but "Country capture" in the sense that I mean it doesn't seem to be.  State captu...

Whilst mumbling in our beer about the failings of the world , Tom  bemoaned the state of the blogging game. Which brings some thoughts to m...

John Gray was tending towards despair a few years ago , but has now fallen. He not so much mourns what he considers the death of liberalism...

My pic shows a sunrise at Argeles-sur-Mer. I had a few days there, doing not very much, at the end of two months in France, having taken so...

Sez the Graun , having previously drooled over the directors being  personally sued . The ostensible reason for the lawsuit was that the di...

People are prone to saying things like " But impacts of climate change are different — they are non-linear " by which they mean s...

From the Graun :  The UK is lagging far behind France and other EU countries in installing heat pumps, research has shown, with less than a...

Global warming makes the globe get warmer on average, with - naturally enough - year to year variabililty. If you're interested in dete...

Since Law is custom , and morality is a sort of localised short-range-interaction law, it follows that morality ought to be custom too. Hav...

I have frequent need to say "law is custom" and yet the post I use to link those words to - Hayek vs Hobbes and the theory of law...

But not Grindr or any of that stuff. No, this is the Supremes weighing in on whether people can be forced to make things they don't wan...

Another year another splendid Mays. How the years roll by. This year's playlist is here  featuring the usual mix of high-quality hot bum...

Just a quickie, since I seem to be on a roll. Via Twatter , cleantechnica says "Mark Jacobson and his colleagues at Stanford Universi...

AukeHoekstra, a useful source for renewal energy factz, laments that  we can't bankrupt [oil companies] before we have weaned ourselves...

Via Twatter , yet more subsidies stuff. This time they've decided to consider  fossil fuels, agriculture, and fisheries together, pres...

In  Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement? I queried the assertion that  Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the or...

More of the same, of course, so I won't waste too much of your time.  knowablemagazine says :  A report to the US president sounded an ...

So claims the Graun , h/t Twatter . What the Graun won't do, because they are clown journos who don't understand the concept of sou...