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Populism and democracy

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Despite all the fun and games happening in Europe I’ve been rather quite on the matter, and am actually going to continue with that with this post. So many other people are doing a much better job of commenting all I could really add is a “what they said”. I am however going to use the EU crisis and a post about it to pose a question that’s puzzled me for years and which The Snowolf just expressed in a far more eloquent fashion than I’d manage. What the Snowolf said was: “Politicians get very sniffy about populist policy decisions, … Continue reading →

Wind turbine adds to global warming

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Having just finished reading a a missive to Mr Huhne about his windmills over at the < ahref="http://foggy-mirror.blogspot.com/2011/12/and-then-little-inconvenient-science.html">Foggy Mirror I was rather relieved to see that wind turbines can make a positive contribution towards the fight against the next ice age. As they say in the popular* story “A game of thrones” – winter is coming Update: I suppose I should link to the

Danegeld and riots for all reasons

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So almost a week since the looting and huge swathes of forest has been sacrificed to discuss the cause of the unrest and more importantly who was to blame. I am of course going to add to the sound and fury being generated, mainly because some of the commentary has rather tickled my sense of the absurd. One of the early “causes” of the looting proffered by the punditry, was that youth centres had been shut down and more people had said if the youth centres shut down they’d be trouble/riots/the end of civilisation as we know it. Now to … Continue reading →