Instead of a new post this week, a link to my post which MAHB has published.  It has attracted comments, but my real hope is dialogue with ‘big hitters’, just […]

Originally I thought of Vaccine Passports as an excellent, obvious proposal, (as I gather do most of the public), but an idea which unites opponents Iain Duncan Smith and Jeremy […]

Whatever is necessary to save the Ecosphere, invariably the decision makers, be they individuals, firms, or even nations in competition with the rest, must apparently always choose short term advantage […]

No, my sister, Gwendoline (known to her disgust as “Molly”) is’t a centenarian. She had a heart attack in 1985, but I think everybody should be given a Centenary. I […]

This issue highlights why the world is heading for ecological disaster, but why individual players usually choose the worst environmental options. What follows is amended from my original post on […]

The title is a misnomer really, but Elizabeth Kolbert’s article does clarlify indirectly why my ‘basic income’ solution never caught on. The search for technological solutions is dangerous, as Ms […]

I recommend this excellent Financial Times account(Pilita Clark, 23rd Feb)of where we are at in the struggle to save the ecosphere. But there is something still missing: Why is an […]

The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4, 17,2,2019) grapples with this in the context of CV19, but the discussion returns more than once to the choices open to the affluent, as […]

I am 86. I have been vaccinated once. My partner, 82, opposes vaccination . She has provided me with articles in the International Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. References […]

I have not changed sides. My motive is a devious, desperate ploy to save the ecosphere: chessplayers would call it a gambit: an apparent mistake which gains an advantage later. […]