Why is the Green Party so futile on climate?

 Why Is the Green Party So Futile On Climate? For years the scientists have been telling us that there was little chance of triggering runaway global warming so long as we kept atmospheric carbon to below 450 ppm, but...

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Test Match Special a good example of TMS.

The major problem afflicting human beings is that we have universal minds trapped in local circumstances.  Other species have brains that are instinctive and algorithmic. They are presented with a stimulus and their brains re-act to it in a...

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Life in Love Lane: Visiting Marjorie

 Today is Marjorie’s birthday.   I take her a card and a pot plant.  ‘Oh you shouldn’t’ she says, doubtless thinking oh no not another pot plant as she adds it to the long row already residing on the windowsill,...

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child abuse is a matter of grave importance but…

Child abuse is obviously a matter of grave importance but I do think the prosecutions of these doddering old guys have got out of hand.   Child abuse has gone on for ever, so why now has society suddenly become...

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Wonders of slugs and cow pats

One of the most extraordinary and beautiful phenomena of nature, extraordinary because it is so ordinary and so close to us, is the sexual life of the common or, in the literal sense of the term, garden slug.  Slugs...

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Today is St Thomas’s day.

Today is St Thomas’s day My Lord and my GodIf David Hume had been in the roomWearing head most philosophicalWhen Christ appeared to doubting ThomasAnd Thomas put his fingers in the woundsAnd said 'I believe! My lord and God!'Would...

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