I have smart friends. Some of them are on Twitter (for now) We DM. See below, of me and VSF (Very Smart Friend) Me: how are you doing? Shit is fucked up, isn't it, to use the academic language... 1:28 PM Very Smart Friend: How far can political reality stretch from physical reality? 1:40 PM... Continue Reading →
So, a friend tagged me in a Twitter (RIP?) thread which mentioned a rare (1) new article by Benjamin Sovacool, who is my boss and also - sorry, I know this is excruciatingly sycophantic and would get me a Private Eye OBN - a thoughtful and kind person, whose work is really useful (full disclosure... Continue Reading →
Two things before I feed the swans and then work into the evening on industrial decarbonisation and multiple streams approach ONE - I did a mostly good talk about ID and MSA today. Halfway through I realised I was sharing the screen of my penultimate powerpoint presentation and that I really ought to have the... Continue Reading →
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 →
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