Category Archives: Weirdos
Keep the Coal in a Black Hole and the Gas up Rusbridger’s Wassname
I was idly surfing the English language TV news channels looking for reactions to the Greek crisis, and came across two science items. In the first the presenter was interviewing a science correspondent who was holding a cuddly furry toy … Continue reading
Denial 101
Many thanks to Barry Woods for sending me this: https://www.edx.org/course/making-sense-climate-science-denial-uqx-denial101x It’s a free 7-week on-line course on “Making Sense of Climate Science Denial” run by the University of Queensland. Among the instructors are Fellow for the Global Change Institute John … Continue reading
Rusbridger: “This is the most Terrible Campaign”
Alex Cull has just published a transcript of the latest episode of the Graun’s Podcast of Doom at https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/2015/20150327_gn The original podcast can be found at http://www.theguardian.com/environment/audio/2015/mar/27/podcast-biggest-story-climate-change-campaign-episode3-audio A million thanks Alex. These documents are truly amazing. It’s like listening to … Continue reading
Rusbridger’s Balls
Alex Cull has recently published two wonderfully weird transcripts of podcasts at Guardian Environment, at https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/2015/20150312_gn and at https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/2015/20150319_gn They confirm something we’ve all suspected for years. The editor and top journalists of a major newspaper have gone stark raving … Continue reading
Legal Advice Required Urgently
[In the cold light of day, and no longer pissed out of my mind, I’ve changed the first paragraph of my reply to Lucy Davies.] I’d got a lot to say here about two important affairs 1) the thorough demolition … Continue reading
thefuture.net Climate Porn – George Monbiot with Tits
There’s a new movement afoot to make us aware of the danger facing the planet. It’s called thefuture.To get an idea of what it’s about, I do recommend you watch the video at It starts with an image of a … Continue reading
2071 Script by Duncan Macmillan and Chris Rapley
This is a transcription of the one man show at the Royal Court last month. The Royal Court usually publishes its playscripts to coincide with performances. Numerous interviews and articles have made it clear that the authors intend this piece … Continue reading
Rapley’s Cogitatum Interruptum: 2071 Transcribed
I’m busy transcribing Rapley’s Royal Court monologue. It’s awful, but in a totally different way to Emmott’s Ten Billion. Rapley delivers his well-turned phrases, each one decorated with curlicues of statistics, in a clear, if rather boring, voice. As I … Continue reading
2071: Rapley’s Rap
The Chris Rapley / Duncan Macmillan doomfest “2071” is on at the Royal Court. I’ll try and do what Alex Cull and I did with Stephen Emmott’s “Ten Billion” and glean the maximum number of howlers from reviews. Please add … Continue reading
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Rusbridger’s Dementia
One of the nice things you can do on WordPress is see which of your articles people are reading. With 177 articles up so far, I find this most useful since many of them I can’t even remember writing. One … Continue reading →