
The Human response to Climate Collapse
and what needs to be done…
Why Am I Emotional?
I started this blog in 2019 with a first short entry entitled “Why Am I Emotional?” I’m more emotional now. Huge swathes of Europe on fire, as predicted, and floods elsewhere. I was engaged with campaigns for climate action in the 1990’s advised by Jonathan Neale, convinced of the emergency by South American climate scientists…
Money for Social Care can Easily be Found
My Comment column this week, printed in the daily Plymouth Herald, challenging the deceit that there is no money for Welfare. At an ailing 72 years of age I declare a personal interest – we need more money for Adult Social Care. And the money’s there! I hope you agree. Do we care so little…
Burnham by Name, Burn’em by Intent
My weekly comment column in the daily Plymouth Herald (21.7.26), only to find someone else had already thought of my strapline! Original ideas are only original to the thinker. It’s all been said before. And I must admit, now living through the second Labour Chancellor called Denis Healey, another Big Cuts cavalier, the deja vu…
Stop this Crackdown on the Right to Protest for Palestine!
My weekly Comment Column in the daily Plymouth Herald (14.7.26), considering the recent statement of Prime Minister Burnham apologising for Starmer’s support for genocide in Gaza. Written the same day as the Church of England Synod debates and supports a report critical of Israel and accepting the existence of Palestine and the need to actively…
The Idea We Can All be Rich is a Vicious Deception
My weekly Comment Column in the daily Plymouth Herald (7.7.26), intentionally poking a sideways jab at Nigel Farage, his £5million bung from a billionaire, alongside many other dubious “donations” much in the news right now. I was encouraged by a Vox pop 10 second interview with a working class woman on BBC radio, saying “if…
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