Mark Charan Newton

If you can’t scientifically disprove that the atmosphere contains CO2; that atmospheric CO2 raises global temperature; that pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere will increase this effect; and anthropogenic activities have led to increased CO2 emissions, then you’re in agreement with the vast majority of world’s scientists who believe we’re f*cking up the environment to [...]

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The government wants to go nuclear to go green. Nuclear power. It’s low carbon, right, and we’re up against the clock to reduce our emissions. You can’t see the smoke billowing into the sky, so it must be clean. And it’s one of the most efficient forms of energy generation, so the theory goes. But [...]

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Reported in the Guardian: The climate scientists at the centre of a media storm were today cleared of accusations that they fudged their results and silenced critics to bolster the case for man-made global warming. The damage has already been done. What’s of interest to me here is not the clearing of data – that’s [...]

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A wonderful letter in the Guardian: Let me just make sure I’ve got this right. First of all, a bunch of bankers lose unimaginable amounts of our money by making bets on a bunch of dodgy mortgages. Eventually the banks realise the bets are based on worthless assets, and that technically they are bankrupt. The [...]

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George Monbiot excels in giving a number of beatings to the former chairman of the now-nationalised Northern Rock bank, and his cornutopian ideological blatherings. Brass neck doesn’t begin to describe it. Matt Ridley used to make his living partly by writing state-bashing columns in the Daily Telegraph. The government, he complained, is “a self-seeking flea [...]

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From the constantly hilarious Onion: Describing himself as “terribly exhausted,” famed linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky said Monday that he was taking a break from combating the hegemony of the American imperialist machine to try and take it easy for once. “I just want to lie in a hammock and have a nice relaxing [...]

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Readers seem to surrender themselves to the idea of politics within fiction on a regular basis. They are open to worlds of hugely varying political structures and concepts, and many genre authors are willing to explore new ways of thinking. But when it comes to actual, real-life ideologies, authors and readers start staring at their [...]

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Oh, United Kingdom electorate. By the title of this post, I mean things like this, and this, and this, and this. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. Share:

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I received this in response to my complaint about the appalling BBC interview where two young BNP members were allowed to promote racism under spurious terms. The interviewer possessed all the intellectual grit and rigour of the school playground when questioning them. I reiterate – this is not about free speech – there was no [...]

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I would be upset if there were no more giant pandas, I’d be upset if there were no more lions, if there were no more tigers, so equally I’d be upset if white people weren’t here any more. From a Radio One feature. I’m pretty fucking angry about this. Can I just say this isn’t [...]

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