Monthly Archives: January 2024

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it, wrote the US novelist Upton Sinclair in 1935. That in a nutshell is the biggest threat to government and public life, … Continue reading →

In the story of man-made global warming, a saga now stretching back many decades, the year just gone will be remembered as a standout, one for the history books. Scientists are innately cautious, and don’t like getting ahead of the … Continue reading →