… that get to us. Another public loo closed. The removal of that drinking fountain from the park, obliging mum to fork out a fiver on fizzy drinks for the kids at the privatised cafe by the boating lake. These … Read More »
The Economist today: “It’s been raining snakes amid the recent heavy downpour,” reported the Mumbai edition of the Times of India on July 26th, in a news piece about a rock python which “refused to be evicted” from an autorickshaw. The same paper … Read More »
At the beginning of this month the most dangerous nation on earth held the four yearly circus by which presidents and other occupants of high office are chosen. Four weeks on, so much has been written, some of it by … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian The unprecedented crime Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth refer to is that of willfully allowing global temperatures to rise, through greenhouse gas emissions, to levels already causing large-scale loss of life while threatening human … Read More »
Should humanity pull back from – take your pick – environmental disaster, nuclear annihilation or both of these logical consequences of capitalism’s relentless addiction to ‘growth’, how will future schoolchildren, in their history classes, judge the injection by private interests … Read More »
I’ll understand your raising a sceptical eyebrow at my assertion that George’s is a powerful and cogent voice which, on one of the two greatest threats humanity faces, needs to be heard. Why wouldn’t you be sceptical, given all I’ve … Read More »