Really? Has it come to this? Our response to our pollution of the world is air-purifying headphones? Let’s make another product! Let’s make it really expensive so that only the well-off can escape the pollution they are disproportionately responsible for!
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Why I despise war criminal Boris Johnson The two parameters I set myself for this blog were that I would not descend into bad language, and would not indulge in the sort of polarised click-baity outrage that makes up so much internet content. So the title is a considered one, and one I stand by,
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Tragedy of olympic proportions This is old news, but I’m so incensed I just need to offload, so I do apologise. Normal service will resume shortly, although only after I tick a couple of others off my list too. But I am really struggling to get past this one, which is the report that Russia
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It’s elementary I really do mean to write something more cheerful. Also better informed by things I actually know something about. But bouyed up by modest success as an armchair general, I’m going to allow myself another prediction and some pertinent, searching observations, and then I will get back to writing something about cooking or
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Silver Linings? One of the things that got me started on this was COP26 in Glasgow, hoping against hope that something might come out of it, thinking it’d be interesting to document it as it happened just to look back on how it was covered at the time. I still do want to go back
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Interior design Home County Lines has been away for a couple of weeks, but don’t worry – plans are afoot. That’s the thing with a day job: too many ideas, not enough time. Anyway, much bemusement has been expressed at Vlad’s power-trip table, and rightfully so. Jokes about little man syndrome (Vlad looks like a
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Making light of this is, of course, the privilige of someone who feels themself safe and the perogtive of fools: people are losing their lives as I write. Diary accounts of the early days of major events are always interesting for their lack of the retrospect, for their idiosyncratic slants and preoccupations that history will
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A couple of days ago it was reported that a cull of hamsters was underway in Hong Kong after several had been found to have Covid. Since Hong Kong is essentially Covid-free (cases well under a hundred per day), the hamsters appear to have arrived pre-infected. Arrived, you say? Yes, it appears the hamsters arrived
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