Yeah, look, as per the late Lou Reed "stick a fork in us, we're done."

But I thought all academics were fearless free-thinkers who had rigorously* examined societal and personal beliefs to see if they made sense?!

[sarcasm, for those who don't know me]

[*The main rigor is rigor mortis; of their spines, and the lump of cells sat atop calling itself a brain]

It is written for the people who run the planet. They expect the best in everything, including reporting and analysis

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Oh, absolutely - apols if have given any other impression.

Have you ever read the novel "Day of the Triffids"? There's a dialogue near the end about civilisational implosion if the work of teaching the next generation(s) becomes impossible...

A every chance I’ll repost this brief statement on the recruitment of sadists to enforce violence upon your citizens and per ieved enemies [literally from the first head of the Gestapo]

And people (pretend to?) have no idea how thin the ice we are skating on is. They seem to think that "food comes from supermarkets". Even (especially?) 'educated' people, who ought to know better (and do, in fact)

"Disavowal" - as per this excellent interview allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/14/o...

It's a good article. The Aldi checkout anecdote - a Facebook rant in meatspace - was (for me) the best bit. She's a little ahistorical and a-sociological (but then, it's an op-ed in a liberal newspaper, what do you expect?!)

Will we know it when it happens though? Will the infrastructure to accurately measure, analyse and communicate still be standing at 3 degrees!?

I have a spreadsheet of quotes I use all the time (of course I do)...

Here's EP Thompson...

The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back

2/2

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.

1/2

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I'll, I'll never look at a column by Jonathan Freedland in quite the same way again... (sobs in corner)

Wait, the pundits are NOT fearless Woodward and Bernstein types?

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