Bishop Hill has been trying to post a climate comment on the Guardian‘s opinion site, CiF. But he is being ‘moderated’. In other words he is in a category of suspected comments offenders, which means that his comments may or may not be posted, once the ‘moderators’ have perused and […]
My observations on the Decay of Language have made it to the Independent, albeit in a somewhat truncated and mysterious form, ie leaving out the bits about No 10’s spelling incompetence and not making it clear that the opening passages were not by me but from a reader. Still, the main point […]
Craig Murray’s vanity knows no bounds. His ‘story’ is soon to be dramatised on the BBC! If I can bear to listen I’ll do so and give you a full and fair review. Meanwhile he launches another misguided missile at the role of the government’s Law Officers. He appears to […]
Perusing Hacker Factor I found this notable device, a Gender Guesser programme for (yes) guessing the gender of a writer from 300 or so words of prose. Worth a try. So I cut and pasted this passage from a recent blog entry of mine: The strength of the Iranian protest […]
Goes to the Times website today: Bad, bad and very bad. Our critics’ butcher this year’s turkeys
Baffled and annoyed by all the scientific arguments to and fro about Climate Change? Want some help? Try Iowahawk‘s fine DIY guide to producing impressive climate statistics – and to presenting data in all sorts of different ways … As previously noted, it all boils down to showing why the Medieval […]
The Climate Summit is in disarray wails the Guardian, all because of a leaked position paper which suggests an attempted rich country stitch-up, or something like that. Points to note: this is above all a Negotiation on a vast and therefore ultimately simple scale Poor countries say: Rich countries caused the problem, […]
A Saddam Hussein TV channel has been launched. The BBC gets reactions: An Iraqi member of parliament, Jaber Habib Jaber, condemned what he called the channel’s "glorification of a tyrant". So far so good. One Baghdad resident told the BBC that the channel has become his favourite even though watching […]
Mark Mardell, BBC North America editor, looks at the problems the Democrats are having in the USA in explaining their policies to an inceasingly unhappy electorate. He’s not taking sides. No sirree! But read this awesome passage (emphasis added): There is little doubt that the Obama administration is widely perceived […]
What is it with J ‘n’ J over at the Guardian? First we had this Jonathan Steele going to Hell. Now we have Jonathan Freedland frothing himself up about eastern Europe’s horrible predisposition to Nazi-style extremism: … a brand of ultra-nationalistic politics that would repel most voters in western Europe. It […]
