Roger Hallam has gone off on one again. It is, as ever, anthropologically fascinating and politically terrifying. You can read the thread here. https://twitter.com/RogerHallamCS21/status/1585720401359175681 I won't fisk the lot of it (life is short, it's not long until the Abrupt End of Everything). As ever with Hallam, there are some robust and intelligent takes on... Continue Reading →
The Bourne Ultimatum remains one of the best thriller movies of all-time (with almost the emotional punch of the film that came before - The Bourne Supremacy). Early on, amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne meets up - at Waterloo station - with a journalist who has grabbed hold of a piece of the cover story and... Continue Reading →
Blah blah heated exchanges on Twitter- and more heat than light, because, well, that’s what a) the platform encourages and b) some people want/are capable of. Blah blah Tbf, that my doomer-rants will trigger some people is to be expected. After all, I am pointing out - with sark, snark and manly certainty - that... Continue Reading →
For those who haven't had the pleasure, the late Tony Gramsci (Italian Marxist, died in one of Mussolini's jails before the war) had a way with words. One of the phrases that gets, ah, trotted out is the following - "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying but the new... Continue Reading →
The post I dashed off yesterday, about the Van Gogh action, has had some pick-up. Thank you to those folks who retweeted it, especially to those who did not necessarily agree with all/most/much of it, but saw it as a useful contribution. It has meant some good conversations with people I already knew, and also... Continue Reading →
My two cents /fifty pence on the Van Gogh/Sunflowers Just Stop Oil Painting Action, the commentary and what next for people who give a damn. tl;dr: everyone is missing the point except me (obvs) and if everyone listened to me, had listened to me, all the world's problems would have been solved ages ago and... Continue Reading →
Short post because - the clue is in the title - I finally got COVID, two and a half years after it began. I think I am on the mend, slowly but this could be a false dawn, and anyway, the real danger - as smart people have warned me - is that you try... Continue Reading →
Uggh. a) I have COVID b) I have had enough of climate "activists" and their gormless miss-the-point-"debates" about individual versus "top-down" action. The love-and-light brigade tell us our individual footprints matter, that we need to "be the change we want to see". They ignore the corporates (indeed, blah blah BP invented carbon footprints blah blah)... Continue Reading →
So, erstwhile colleagues at Climate Emergency Manchester have written about this. Here's my two cents (or three pounds, as the exchange rate would have it). The clue is in the word; sacrifice is "to make sacred". Sacredness gets an understandably bad rap these days, given what organised religion has justified (am re-reading Brendan Phibbs' "The... Continue Reading →
I am re-reading the extraordinary World War 2 memoir "The Other Side of Time" by Brendan Phibbs. It is at least as good as I have remembered and said to various people. Easily among the top ten books I have ever read. This excerpt below comes after some American soldiers have died needlessly in a... Continue Reading →
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