Brexit: May Bloodied but Not Yet Bowed
Theresa May continues to exhibit her remarkable capacity for taking punishment. Too bad it’s not for good ends.
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Brexit: Coming to a Head?
The latest take on the increasingly frantic Brexit state of play.
Read more...Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.
Read more...Brexitonomics
A short discussion of why economists’ efforts to model the impact of Brexit leave a lot to be desired.
Read more...American Life Expectancy Continues to Fall: Rise in Suicides, Overdose Deaths the Big Culprit
America’s falling life expectancy is a symptom of rising social distress.
Read more...Breaking Down What Climate Change Will Do, Region by Region
A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
Read more...How Economists Impede Addressing Climate Change
Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...Brexit Is an Issue Too Deep To Go Away: It Will Be the Theme of English Politics for Decades to Come
Musings about what Brexit will mean to the British people.
Read more...Moscow & NATO Playing a ‘Dangerous Tit-For-Tat Game’ in the Ukraine
The Ukraine-Russia row heats up again.
Read more...White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report
Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...Brexit: More Thrashing About
Expect Brexit craziness to get even worse.
Read more...Brexit: Even More Confusion
Brexit politics have become even more deranged.
Read more...Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument
A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
Read more...Labour MPs Should Vote Against Theresa May’s Brexit Deal. It Is a Poison Pill
Labour wants to play a game of chicken with May over Brexit.
Read more...Brexit: Brexit Minister Raab Resigns; May to Face Hostile Parliament. Update: Two More Resignations, Bringing Total So Far to Four, Now Six
Another rough Brexit day for Theresa May in the offing.
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