Archive For The “Politics” Category
I’ve been particularly busy this week, and haven’t got around to producing any new material for this blog. On the other hand, I have written a piece for Sublime Magazine on the aftermath of Copenhagen – inspired by this extraordinary piece of journalism from Mark Lynas. I’ve also realised that I haven’t yet posted the [...]
I listened recently to a fascinating dialogue between Duncan Campbell and George Lakoff (it consists of three episodes, available here, here and here). In it, Lakoff mentioned that a key reason for the success of the Republican party in the US in recent years has been their ability to capture the imagination of the American [...]
In general, I think of myself as a fairly peaceable person. I’m fairly thoughtful, and I rarely act before engaging my brain. Over the past few days, however, I’ve noticed the red mist descending more than once. The trigger? Discussions about climate change over the internet. I’ve resorted to telling one person to ‘fuck off’ [...]
Ian Plimer, for those who are unaware, is a man who continually seeks to muddy the consensus on climate change. If polls are to be believed, he and a few others are doing a spectacularly good job. According to George Marshall, scarcely ten per cent of people in the UK regard climate change as a [...]
