Sigh. What can you do (non-rhetorical question). Three hundred and fifty organisations beg everyone to come to a march in London. "Thousands" (presumably a few tens of thousand?) do. Reminds me so much of the 2009 climate march catastrophe, the "Big Wank" or "the Big Naive" or whatever it was called ("the Wave", btw). It... Continue Reading →
About a hundred people (1) gathered last night to hear from five people who want to be the Member of Parliament representing Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge . The five present were Dannie Braine, Green Party Alexander Bramham, Social Democratic Party Jacqueline Anne Brown Labour Sam Harper-Wallis Liberal Democrat Gavin Williamson, Conservative and Unionist Party [I... Continue Reading →
Quick post because am supposed to be doing other things, which scare me and I am (obviously) doing displacement activities, albeit Worthy Ones. We people who have spent most of our lives in/of the Internet (and full disclosure, I am 50:50) have no real understanding of just how much boring physical work went in to... Continue Reading →
I said to myself I'd at least blog every long yomp, if not all the podcasts I listened to. You would think I'd know myself better by now. But how else ya gonna get outa bed if you aren't riddled with self-delusion? Yesterday I left the house at about 0940. I was wearing a weighted... Continue Reading →
What do the good guys do when their failure to win is pointed out to them? That’s the question I grapple with (or gum on, toothlessly) in this post (usual disclaimers apply). Readers of a nervous disposition, who are happy in their own public smugosphere, will want to look away now. I recently talked to... Continue Reading →
Quick half-formed (but hopefully not half-baked) thoughts. The last post I put up on this site was a photo of a wonderful letter Noam Chomsky wrote to me in 1995, in reply to a "how do you keep your hope alive?" plea. It got a lot of traction on Twitter, with lots of likes and... Continue Reading →
Noam Chomsky is 95, and according to a tweet I just saw, his health "has deteriorated to the point it now prevents him from writing, commenting or participating in the public domain." I put this letter from him up as one miniscule example of just how wonderful -and life-changing - his work (the lectures and... Continue Reading →
First things first. If in five years' time anyone thinks that what is aerating everyone today will be remembered as significant, I will eat my hat (1). I think part of our (my) fascination with what is unfolding is only in part a "they cannot be that incompetent, can they?" reaction (2): it is more... Continue Reading →
The standard operating assumption of most climate "activists" and pearl-clutchers (1) is that someone In Authority (usually scientists, sometimes "world leaders" or even celebrities) just needs to Tell The Truth and everyone (aka "civil society" or, if you're willing to wear your condescension as a green badge of courage, "the sheeple") will wake up and... Continue Reading →
Here's the 34 (that number!) words that I've put on a spreadsheet, having already hit 1000 (more of this list, and what I have done with it, later). These words come from various places, including an excellent novel called Melmoth by Sarah Perry, and an equally excellent short story called The Autopsy, by Michael Shea.... Continue Reading →
