Whoop!! My tenth letter published in the FT (mostly they are on climate, but also Tom Lehrer etc, and with a roughly 50% success rate of submit-appear). https://www.ft.com/content/bdf57e59-aba0-4f81-ae5c-872bbcd3c9ec In his letter (April 30) responding to Anjana Ahuja’s column about the now fixed Voyager 1 (“Rejoice! Voyager 1 is back from the dead”, Opinion, April 26),... Continue Reading →
A properly Star-FT brain #02 – Labour factions, Mark Fisher and Gaza
Another blog about the Morning Star and Financial Times, which I get most Saturdays. See first blog here. The Morning Star had some good stuff Kerr, M. 2024. Miliband commits to £8.3bn GB Energy investment strategy. Morning Star, February 17, p.3. McCail, C. 2024. The anti-politics of Starmer's Labour. Morning Star, February 17, p.12-13. (on... Continue Reading →
A properly Star-FT brain #01 – of Green Prosperity Plans, monophysitism and letters pages etc
"The two essential daily newspapers in the UK are the Morning Star and the Financial Times" - discuss (1). I've not time, money or inclination to get them every day, but on Saturdays... So, I will try to blog a bit about them, what I learn etc. For the FT it might only be the... Continue Reading →