The Human response to Climate Collapse
and what needs to be done…
We should be emptying the prisons!
My weekly Comment column in the daily Plymouth Herald (1st September 2026), trying to counter the wall-to-wall right-wing media coverage of the prisons crisis, each and all focussed on the threat from criminals when there is less threat now than for decades. Of course, a separate piece would place the issue within the wider crisis…
We are Escalating Towards World War Three
My weekly comment column in the daily Plymouth Herald (25.08.2026), trying to evade the censors whilst raising the issue of the Ukraine War. So many on the Left, as well as everyone else, supports Ukraine against Russia. I, too, feel for the Ukrainian working class experiencing such barbarism and powerlessness. But I find any identification…
Climate Collapse is the Biggest Threat to Humanity – Where’s the Protests?
My weekly comment column in the daily Plymouth Herald (18.08.26), kinda repeating myself. So much evidence of climate change, so little protection for the people. It is difficult to focus on any key link that can pull the movement forward and back into action, yesterday heat, tomorrow floods, January freeze…Britain, shielded by the “Gulf Stream”,…
Human Intelligence at a Premium
My weekly Comment column on the daily Plymouth Herald newspaper (11.8.26), beginning what should prove to be a series of arguments against the rise of Artificial Intelligence and its gas-guzzling infrastructure. My comments are edited at the paper each time, and you may spot the changes by use of the word “I”. I don’t write…
Racism is Whipped-up on Purpose to Divide Us
My weekly published Comment column in the daily Plymouth Herald (4.8.26), responding to the previous day’s outrageous press conference staged by Reform UK detailing the use of naval warships to prevent refugees crossing the English Channel “by all means possible”. They had the audacity to invoke the European Human Rights Charter in defence of their…
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