Fossil fuel investments have soared under Trump

Bank holdings in “extreme” fossil fuels skyrocketed globally to $115bn during Donald Trump’s first year as US president, with holdings in tar sands oil more than doubling, a new report has found. A sharp flight from fossil fuels investments after...

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A great comedy duo?

I sometimes wonder whether Thomas Aquinas and Brother Reginald, a lay brother the Dominicans appointed to make sure the great philosopher didn't fall into a ditch or walk out into the road and things, were not a great comedy...

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Looking for a Father (2)

The infant is saved from Winnicott’s dreadful terrors of disintegration and total annihilation of his tiny being by the equally all-encompassing and total love of “the good enough mother”.  But there is a price to be paid.  How, when...

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Looking for a Father (1)

Looking for a Father (1)   One of my favourite authors is Christopher Bollas, a member of the British school of psycho-analysis whose inspirational founder was D.W. Winnicott.  Winnicott’s great insight was that human infants are born extremely prematurely (on brain...

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Climate change? What an opportunity for the UK

Britain has just achieved its lowest carbon emissions since 1909 and that has to be good news.  But not that good.  Globally, 2017 achieved the highest carbon emissions on record.  In any case, such news misses the point and...

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