July 18, 2024
BANISH THOSE TRUMPIAN BLUES!
It is, truly, too depressing to have to witness Trump's re-ascendancy, compounded equally by the utterly despicable attempt on his life and by Biden’s accelerating descent into…
June 23, 2021
USA and China Join Battle for Net Zero Gold Rush
Listen out: ‘The American Jobs Plan will unify and mobilise the country to meet the two great challenges of our time: the climate crisis and the ambitions of an autocratic……
November 29, 2017
The State of American Democracy
How often have you heard something like this: ‘Well, the situation here in the UK may be dire, but things aren’t half as bad as they are in America!’ I’ve said it myself, mostly…
April 26, 2017
Take Courage! – O Ye of Little Faith! – from Earth Day
I can’t say I’ve been the biggest supporter of Earth Day over the years. Not really into formulaic anniversaries, especially when every day should be a bloody Earth Day as far as…
April 21, 2017
Imagining a Non-Nuclear World
I found myself laughing rather too enthusiastically at a couple of jokes on last week’s Now Show (on Radio 4) about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Laughing in the face of the…