Category: Politics, Power and Profit
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We’ve been told so often that economic growth is a good thing that we can’t see past it
Cognitive fluency is an unconscious bias whereby things that are harder to understand are less believable. For most of us, we’ve been told so often that economic growth is a good thing that we can’t see past it. The idea of NOT wanting economic growth is unthinkable, even blasphemous to…
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We are operating here in privatised public space – our ‘club membership’ can be revoked by the club at any time
I’m a metal-loving transport nerd and wondering what the future holds for this platform which is why I set up https://glennlyons.blog/. If you regularly use this platform as your primary means of keeping in touch with your professional network and getting involved in exchange of knowledge and opinion, how would…
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Götterdämmerung Syndrome
Götterdämmerung Syndrome – “as death approaches, they [narcissists] do their best to destroy as much of the world as they can”. I’ve just reached the half-way point of The Ministry For The Future and the passage in the image below stands out. A quote from an article on the website…
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Trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation
Thank goodness this at least means he isn’t gunning for being chair of the Climate Change Committee, an appointment that isn’t being rushed following the departure of Lord Deben. It seems he is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. I once listened to one of their webinars just…
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First they came for…
It is quite chilling to read of such developments below – a “First they came for…” sensation. I find myself once again oscillating between chasing deadlines amidst a pile of day-job work and opening my eyes wide in shock at what is happening around us. “They shouted up: ‘If you…
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How to stop fascism
Are you ready for some insights into #fascism? I didn’t imagine as a younger man I’d be reading books like this. But the world is not the airbrushed one I once knew. As Derek Halden recently said to me – & it struck a chord – reading & writing is our…
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Is Sky News being impartial or introducing false balance in this interview?
Is Sky News being impartial or introducing false balance in this interview? Why not take 10 minutes to watch the interview in full and weigh up what you make of it. In terms of the interviewees, Zoe Cohen is a prominent climate activist who makes it her business to draw…
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Transitioning to Net Zero
I’ve just taken part in the first 2024 webinar from the Association of European Transport’s Transport and Mobility Forum. Hosted by Conall Mac Aongusa, Chaired by Derek Halden and with Susan Krumdieck and Elizabete Arsenio alongside me on the Panel, we got stuck into the wicked matter of the future…
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‘He lied and lied’ – an attack on climate policy?
“He lied and lied”. This is a bold headline to level at a sitting prime minister. A reminder of the Seven Principles of Public Life: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, Leadership. They’re important aren’t they? A bedrock upon which we should expect politics of any colour to be founded?…
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Rosebank oilfield given the go-ahead – hurrah for profit and power
Rose-BANK $$$ given the go ahead. Congrats to the oil and gas industry, their lobbyists and shareholders. 09:26 news today – “Shares in Ithaca Energy, which will partner with Norway’s Equinor to develop the huge Rosebank oil field, 80 miles west of the Shetland islands, have jumped more than 8% on news of…