Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 March 2020
Friday, 13 December 2019
DAVID BELLAMY OBITUARY
David Bellamy died on Wednesday at the ripe old age of 86. Anyone in Britain of my age will have grown up watching him on television as he explained and explored the natural world in his typically exhuberant style that very much appealed to kids. According to the Express, Bellamy died of dementia, although this may be paper talk; Bellamy, after all, did not endear himself to the media in recent years. Bellamy was often outspoken, showing his disdain for wind turbines on BBC flagship children's programme Blue Peter back in 1996; but it was his heresy on climate change that really made the establishment turn against him, which Bellamy referred to as a scam. That said, many on the Right have again been all too hasty to hold him up as #ourguy, for Bellamy, despite his dissent from the establishment line on certain subjects, has always been very much left of centre.
Saturday, 8 September 2018
THE SCALLOP WAR
In the news last week was the ongoing war between British and French fleets. No, we haven't rolled back the clock a couple of hundred years or so, and the fleets are not military - at least not yet. The boats at war are fishing vessels, with the French ramming the English and throwing projectiles at the mariners, and the dispute is all about scallops. The French fleet outnumber the English 35 to five, so it is hardly a fair fight and some of the English fishermen have called for the Royal Navy to defend the fleet while they trawl for scallops in international waters off the Norman and Breton coasts. It all seems very farcical, especially when one considers that the third world is overrunning both countries on a daily basis, and the Lügenpresse like Le Figaro and the Daily Mail do so love to distract the masses with a bit of phony patriotism when it suits, but there are some very serious issues that no one seems to be addressing.
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