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Celeb Watch:  Energy Secretary Chris Wright Sees Opportunity In Ecological Collapse says Michael Mann . Or does he? Strictly speaking, all...

I last went to the Cairngorms in 2013 ; and my book tells me I was there in 1992, 3 and 6  (see here for 1996 ). But without Howard's e...

A familiar question - I mean my headline, not the cartoon. I don't intend to answer it. My title comes from  In a democracy, when and w...

Or, the year in Stoats, 2024. This year, with too few comments to meaningfully rank anything, I'm returning to ranking by what I like. ...

In the strange quiet 'twixt Christmas and the New Year I bring you three light fluffy concoctions of confusion: Starmer asks UK regulat...

Geddit? I'm not entirely sure Der Spiegel does, those heavy-humoured Germans y'know. But anyway, this is my excuse to spread my wi...

Following on from my brilliant analysis of USAnian politics I feel inclined to write some words on DOGE and related matters; and Sabine...

So another election looms. I find my words from 2020 are weirdly recyclable:  Well, there's an election coming up - you may have noti...

My headline is a half-remembered quote from a poem read at school in childhood. And since I haven't had a poem or art here for a bit......

Having established - at least to my own satisfaction -  The Foundations of Morality , I can now play the fun game of deconstructing other p...

WKWW refers. The shiny new Parliamentarians’ Guide to Climate Change says "Climate change is an area fraught with disinformation, cr...

The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt is an essentially correct analysis of morality; I recommend it highly 2 . You can, if you lik...

By the sword you did your work and by the sword you die 1 will be recognised by all cultured folk as a quote from Aeschylus, spoken by Cly...