September 2020

I've been reading the National Trust's long account of how its estate is mired in historic slavery and colonial exploitation.  Informative, but somewhat tendentious I felt. Any large house that was occupied in the long 18th Century and up to...

750,000,000 – the annual investment (in US$) in wind and solar capacity thought to be needed to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees 264,000,000 – the amount in US$ that the EU claims it will spend on climate measures...

The very late, very great David Hume has had a mixed time of it recently; his name was disassociated from an undistinguished 1960s building in Edinburgh, but this only happened because the University of Edinburgh gave in to the moral...

I wrote back in early September about Extinction Rebellion's growing troubles as the movement (or was it only a moment?) suffered from the inevitable internal wrangling as the cadres sought to claim the moral high ground for their own brand...

Over the Summer, I was sent a series of articles on global heating on jw.org – the Jehovah's Witnesses website.  Surprisingly balanced, I thought, (apart from the conclusion that is) given what I suspected might actually be the case.  The...

As part of the celebrations of 150 years of state education in England, Michael Barber has written an appreciation of 11 people who contributed much along the way.  It's here.  Foster's 1870 Eduction Act was the start point, and Baker's 1988...

This is an extract from a Teach the Future [TtF] blog by Henry Webb, a 19 year old undergraduate: "Another major problem with the current system is the contradicting messages taught to students.  While climate crisis education is insufficient, climate change as...

We've eaten (or given away) all the Discovery apples in the garden and are now eating (and giving away) the Bramleys.  The supermarkets meanwhile are still full of tasteless, sugary fruit from abroad or storage (or both).  Why is this?...

I wrote last month that the University of Bath has agreed eleven Climate Action Framework principles through discussions with staff, campus trade unions and the students’ union [SU], and that these principles will guide how the University conducts business and inform the...

I see that Extinction Rebellion's loose leadership has just noticed that it has been infiltrated by a "tight-knit group of politically motivated men" (as Harold Wilson memorably put it in 1966); that is, those bent on the destruction of capitalism...