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...

For those familiar with this blog over the last 15 months, you will be aware of my views about the futility of the UK Government’s de facto Zero-Covid policy, and the undermining of liberal democracy and the huge public...