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Category Archives: Liberalism
Happy New Year and Brain-teaser
I’d like to wish everybody a Happy New Year but, first, I’m going to give your brain a quick workout! Are the potential benefits of scientific research now limited only by political correctness and epigenetics? However, before giving you my … Continue reading
The elephant in the room with Lewandowsky
This post is based on something I wrote for Paul Handover’s Learning from Dogs website, which was published there earlier this month. As originally conceived, I gave it the title ‘Libertarian ideology is the real road block’. Having had a … Continue reading
Who owns the rain that falls from the sky?
I must thank fellow-blogger Paul Handover for alerting me to – and not posting on his own Learning from Dogs blog – the strange and disturbing real-life story of a man in Oregon who has been sent to jail for … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Disorder, Collapse, Consumerism, Economics, Environment, Liberalism, Politics
Tagged Civil Disorder, European Union, Jared Diamond, water
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Why I am not a Socialist
…and other things “sceptics” should bear in mind! In responding to the amazingly erudite blogger who is Patrice Ayme, on the subject of how we should treat all other life-forms with which we currently share this planet, I recently found … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Environment, Liberalism, Lindzengate, Richard Lindzen, Scepticism
Tagged conservatism, socialism
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Go – Theresa May but Abu Qan’t-be-harder
Another catastrophic week for our banana-skin prone Coalition government in the UK. Talk about an unforced error by Home Secretary Theresa May. Whoever, or whatever will it be next? However, leaving aside arguments over appeal deadlines, the case of Abu … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Liberalism, Politics
Tagged abu qatada, european convention on human rights, Lawyers, Terrorism, theresa may
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