‘When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen’. Kernel of truth right there, all the same.
05.03.2026 17:07
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‘When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen’. Kernel of truth right there, all the same.
This is how most high-level politicians see the climate problem. Sufficiency and regulation come up when you ask random citizens, if they are briefed by experts.
Poster for radio show titled ‘Nighthawks at the African Diner’ on The Thursday Night Show (March 5th, 22:00, UK time). The poster contains text in a variety of different bright colours, combined with extracts from Edward Hopper’s painting ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’ as bands across the poster and with a photo of an African river in the background.
Tonight on The Thursday Night Show, the Nighthawks get on a journey down river as the African Diner takes in music from around the River Congo. This time for 2 hours, join Dom and John at the virtual diner counter on March 5, from 22:00 (UK time) for samples of Congo music.
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"Journalists cannot fully and fairly cover a war this carbon-intensive, destabilizing, and consequential if its climate dimensions are treated as optional add-ons rather than as core fact. " newrepublic.com/article/2073...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
- Margaret Atwood -
Particularly given that it was amongst the most catastrophic policy choices of the 21st C so far.
It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.
It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.
Have just #QuitGPT off my phone…
Updated for 2026
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”.
They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth.
UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.
The main reason UK energy prices are so high is not net zero but the fact the price of gas still sets the price of electricity. Breaking that link should be the priority.
If anyone’s ever read Bulgakov’s ‘The Master & Margarita’, Trump on the world stage reminds me of the Devil in Moscow in that book - an agent of absolute chaos.
Spent a couple of days there about 20 years ago (in transit from Tokyo to Dar es Salaam), while all the fancy stuff still hadn’t quite been built. Agree on the anthropologically fascinating (and disturbing), though the best part was getting out of the city into open desert.
About a toxic a mix you could possibly get in state power…
I mean, it’s Trump. Is there *ever* a plan?
There is that. Can imagine that I might actually find myself agreeing with Churchill on that view too.
Seems like a pretty major error for a serious news organisation to make. Unless…
That’s quite the journey you’ve had. Think I’d read parts of #CalmerFuture before, but not all the way to the end of the ‘About’ page.
What do you think has enabled you to remain so ‘big picture’ in outlook, rather than stay focused on self + circumstances?
Why we go so wrong collectively is the question of the ages, I guess. Some of it will have to do with not seeing the humanity in our fellow humans, or at least feeling solidarity with them. Some of it undoubtedly systemic too.
You’ve gone to far darker corners than me. I’ve tended to be a visitor or observer at some of those dark places (Hiroshima, the Korean border), rather than actually working there. It gives a perspective, for sure, though undoubtedly surface-based.
Why do a small number of us go so far off the edge?
Not even sure if it can actually be described as a position at all…
And on what authority are they observing elections? A curiously opaque website that gives no *actual* information about the ‘organisation’…
That’s probably a fair point - thanks for calling me out on it.
Social media can have a habit of reinforcing the darker corners in the canyons of one’s mind.
The London university where I work (photo from last year). Goodness knows what ‘AI powered coffee’ is!
Notice that the poor chap has ‘Engineer’ on the back of his overalls too.
Hard indeed. Yet horrifically commonplace.
Man in overalls works at a trolley next to a roll-up banner with ‘AI powered coffee’ as a headline and a large robot barista vending machine named Starbot.
A gentleman I spotted at work servicing ‘Starbot’, our robot barista vending machine.
Not a novel, but I fairly recently finished David Byrne’s ‘How Music Works’. A fascinating and educational read that very much took my mind off ‘other things’…
