Earlier this year I wrote a blog post here titled, ‘Re-socialising a vaccinated world requires political struggle‘. I am pleased to draw attention to one small success in such a struggle, which in this case is to make it...

Tonight, the BBC broadcast ‘The Trick’, their commissioned TV drama of the 2009 Climategate affair. The drama focused on the relationship between Professor Phil Jones and his wife Ruth, and the handling of the controversy by Phil’s employer –...

Just over a year ago, I was one of about 50 original co-signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration, a short statement which challenged the prevailing policy orthodoxy that societal lockdowns were the only way to combat the risks to...

Climate change is everywhere.  In everyday speech, protest, advocacy, science, the arts, business and diplomacy.  And there are of course some physical correlates to this discursive reality of climate change, namely changes occurring in the physical dynamics of the...

Earlier this year, I was invited by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Christian Scholar’s Review, Professor Perry Glanzer, to contribute to a series of essays entitled, “Advice to Christian [fill in the academic discipline].”  Glanzer’s inspiration for the series...

Managing climate change and pandemics alike requires ‘values-first’ approaches to public policy development, not ‘science-first’ rhetoric. Read this new essay in the Times Higher Education. If you cannot access the pay-wall, the article is reproduced in full below. In...

As I have repeatedly warned on this blog – ‘Mobilising for War’, ‘Sleepwalking into Totalitarianism’ – that it is much easier to declare an emergency than it is to end one, much easier for a state to appropriate powers...