Is anyone else as baffled as I am by the crazy, crazy world of James Lovelock? (Hat tip: Ed West)
Here is the kindly, distinguished inventor of the Gaia hypothesis interviewed in the Guardian, when asked how humans will ever manage to tackle ‘climate change’.
We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, [...]
Archive for March, 2010
‘Only global fascist tyranny can save us now’ says nice old man
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Making a difference
Monday, March 29th, 2010Many years ago, when I decided to ‘become’ a novelist, I shipped myself off to a village in south-west France called St Jean de Fos for three months, banned myself from reading any novels in English (lest they corrupt my style) and became an obsessive maker of French dishes like cassoulet because my first book [...]
I’ve never met a girl who hero-worships Martin Amis as I do — except maybe his wife
Monday, March 29th, 2010M. ‘I’ve spotted him!’
Me. ‘Where?’
M. ‘Down there. Having a coffee. On his own.’
Me. ‘Hey. Do you think he’d like it if we joined him?’
M. ‘I doubt it. He’s reading a book.’
D. ‘God, is he reading his own book? Unbelievable. He’s reading Yellow Dog.’
M. ‘No it’s not. I think it’s Hitch 22.’
Me. ‘Yeah well, whatever it [...]
The disgusting toffs who are destroying Britain
Monday, March 29th, 2010Whenever I am defending toffs one of the main points I like to make is what great conservators they are. Because they have owned vast swathes of Britain, often for many generations, they understand the importance of their role as trustees of the landscape. Certainly, this coincides with their hobbies – hedges and stone walls [...]
Climategate: the parliamentary cover-up
Thursday, March 25th, 2010Climategate exposed the greatest scandal in the history of modern science but you’re never going to hear this from any of the official investigations. Andrew Orlowski at The Register has uncovered why.
Turns out, that there’s this well-funded SPECTRE-like advocacy group called GLOBE (Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment) International which has co-opted leading parliamentarians from [...]
The Economist: not a serious journal
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Can anyone tell me how The Economist got its title? I’m guessing it was probably founded in the early 18th century by some crazed charlatan called, perhaps, Zachariah Economist, who, because of the unfortunate coincidence of his surname managed to persuade thousands of gullible fools to part with their shirts on one of the South [...]