Climate Change Community Gets Real – Finally!
Less than a month after the hysteria and sheer bad thinking levelled at the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, some […]
Read MoreDeputy Editor tells journalists to talk to people!
Will Gore is Deputy Managing Editor of The Independent and the London Evening Standard. He “writes on a range of topics, including weekly columns about media ethics (having previously worked […]
Read MoreTear Down that Wall, cries Merkel! Yes – but how?
During a panel discussion on 10 June 2017 with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Obviously the main reason for people leaving must be addressed […]
Read MoreA British Prime Minister errs yet again
The decision of British Prime Minister Theresa May to call a snap general election for Thursday, 8 June 2017 has spectacularly backfired, but is just the latest in a series […]
Read MoreHot air swirls around Trump’s announcement to withdraw from Paris climate agreement
Much hot air has been expended since President Trump announced on 1 June 2017 that the USA would withdraw from the December 2015 Paris accord. As is often the case, […]
Read MoreToyota suffers first fall in profits in five years
Judaism – hardly a “big” religion
In its brief slot before its hourly news this week, BBC World TV has been showing an edited-down version of Rajan Datar’s longer report on Jerusalem from its latest edition […]
Read MoreMacron – a mainstream politician who gets it?
In his victory speech following his election as French president on 7 May 2017, Emanuelle Macron stated that he intended to take into account the rage of the people who […]
Read MoreObama vs Macron – déjà vu?
It is hard to avoid noticing the striking similarities between Barack Obama and Emmanuel Macron. Both were relatively young on becoming president of their respective countries, both came out of […]
Read MoreESC’s France Forecasts Vindicated
The second round of voting in the French presidential elections today has vindicated our analysis and forecasts of 23 April 2017 immediately following the first round of voting and our […]
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