…from now on
Hey I\’m on Bluesky now, the new and better twit**r. Come on down.
politics
Governing passions
The role of good government is to ensure that people have: housing health care jobs a conserved environment culture education care at both ends of life fair elections public transport varied and unbiased media food support of science businesses regulated \’You are mistaken,\’ said he gently, \’that is not good government, that is the best.”
Governing passions Read More »
Nothing but blue sky
Hey, I\’ve joined Blue Sky (the new twitter). Come and join me @davidrh.bsky.social Worth a try…
Nothing but blue sky Read More »
Jarrow
It goes without saying that citizens of \”western\” democracies should vote for their respective \”social democratic\” political parties (Labor, Labour, Democratic, New Democratic, Socialist, Social Democratic, etc). Sadly, though, these days we do so more in hope than expectation.
Half of eight billion
Has it always been the case that half the human race are as nutty as fruit cakes?
Half of eight billion Read More »
Moby dicks
You know what kills whales? Naval sonar. Seismic testing on the sea floor. Oil drilling in the ocean. Warming seas. Reduction of krill and other whale food. Oil spills from tankers and rigs. Collisions with ships and boats. Pollution. Shark nets and abandoned gill nets. You know what doesn\’t kill whales? Offshore wind farms.
End game
All over the world the Right are creating political environments in which very stupid people can be elected by even more stupid people
Orwellian
Everyone should read Animal Farm and 1984 once. But it is impossible to read either of them a second time.
Never the twain
There is now a real world occupied by those of us who believe in science, logic, facts, analysis, rational thought, democracy, humanism; and there is now a parallel world occupied by right wing ideologues, religious fundamentalists, climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, libertarians, neofascists, incels, anti-abortionists, home schoolers, racists, nuclear power boosters, UFO believers, conspiracy theorists, misogynists,
The ten commandments
\”Conservative\” political parties in western countries all share ten fundamental features.
The ten commandments Read More »