Mar
24
2015
The elephant in the room in this election is climate change. The public, misled by newspapers, don't realise the extreme peril they and even more their children are in because the politicians won't tell them. And the politicians don't...
Mar
17
2015
Is it going to rain? Don’t think so. I think I might just venture out. Quark! Quark! Ferdinand won’t – Thwit! Schlurp Schlurp ugunk! Delicious - Ferdinand won’t fertilize my eggs. He says I’m not sexy he doesn’t think...
Mar
16
2015
Many people, I notice, have a much-prized stupid interlocutor who ministers greatly to their self-esteem, and their triumphs over whom they frequently recount. “The Eiffel tower is only three feet high”, says the stupid interlocutor. I kept quiet. I...
Mar
09
2015
Climate through comedy. Come and support us. The scientists are now unanimous. If we don't quit fossil fuels decisively and urgently our children are headed for terrible lives on a devastated planet. But on the other hand there are...
Mar
07
2015
Am I the only member of the Green Party appalled by Natalie Bennett's speech? Probably, in the general euphoria caused by surging membership. There was a brief mention of not trashing the planet. But you wouldn't have thought that...
Mar
07
2015
Am I the only member of the Green Party appalled by Natalie Bennett's speech? Probably, in the general euphoria caused by surging membership. There was a brief mention of not trashing the planet. But you wouldn't have thought that...
Mar
06
2015
Wolf Hall was riveting and Mark Rylances’ performance remarkable. Yet that made it all the more misleading as the historical account it might easily be taken to be. Such programmes should come with (mental) health warnings like cigarettes: ‘all...
Mar
04
2015
We don't think of ourselves as vicious exterminators like the Nazis but then I don't suppose they did either. According to the scientists 40/50% of known species could have disappeared by the end of the century, many because of...