For the first time in 2 decades there are more closed autocracies in the world than democracies. We do better than democracies - Lower infant mortality, higher literacy, tend to grow faster. Successful democracy is how we create agreeable disagreement. How to resolve our disagreement peacefully. Vocal descent. Institutions of liberal democracies - courts, civil… Continue reading Reith Lectures 2023 – Agreeable disageement
Crib
On a perfect dull dark damp day, I retrieved two christmas boxes from the dungeon of storage in the shed, and so unpacked the memory of last year and some of the years before, captured in the air that they were put away in. Whosh. Along with it inevitably, regret, of what not done, in… Continue reading Crib
Nautilus objections
I strongly object to the NAUTILUS project connecting at Friston on these grounds. 1. Overwhelming cumulative impacts from National Grids proposed Sea Link, Lionlink and Nautilus and EDF Energy’s Sizewell C will detrimentally affect East Suffolk communities, loss of visitors and destroy our heritage coast and environment. 2. OFGEM are aiding, without consultation or consideration… Continue reading Nautilus objections
Lord Deban on Climate Change
Quay Street Church, Thursday 26th October. The Right Hon. the Lord Deben, the former chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, previous Secretary of State for the Environment and MP for Suffolk Coastal, now sits outside in the Lords, speaks openly against Government failure to act decisively in response to energy River Deben Association’s Autumn.… Continue reading Lord Deban on Climate Change
To Frack or not to frack
We’ve been fracking conventional reserves since we’ve been extracting gas, ie 1940/60/90, off shore and on shore. Freckinf unconventional reserves mainly in us since 90s. Water provides the hydraulic power. Water 95 , sand 5, chemicals, 5 12 swimming pools of water. But far more in leakages wastage. 1/2 recovered and reused. Is it safe?… Continue reading To Frack or not to frack
London Suffolk
(WordPress does not work - an exhaustible problem with having flushed my cookies - so this is the old fashioned log being recorded. ) London A stranger to me now, I am drawn to old haunts like my grandmother was drawn to bygone stories - which used to drive me mad. As I sat outside… Continue reading London Suffolk
Akenfield screening in Southwold
The initiative of Waveney and Blyth Arts, and introduced with his usual calm intelligent and humorous easy way by Brian Guthrie. The book was in my mothers book case. It is in her time that it came out (1969) and was an instant success. She must have read it and joined the conversations around it.… Continue reading Akenfield screening in Southwold
Folk East 2023
Folk East - a measurement of time It was the year the Hop Inn was as large as the CobboldI ran out of curtains to deck the tent wallsBike wheel chandeliers hung from the ceilingAlmost foiled, as not fire proofed butSaved by John who found spray in Beccles.My Notting Hill curtains found in a charity… Continue reading Folk East 2023
Rethinking climate change
Notes from radio 4. PLEDGES and Progress Why gap between pledges and reality so vaste? Politics and policy. What worked, what didn't and why. Two blocks - politics and money - who pays, this generation for future generations, rich for poor, so many have got rich on fossil fuels. Politics - how to make changes… Continue reading Rethinking climate change
Oppenheimer
Christina and I went to the film shortly released, in comfortable Aldeburgh. She sent this excellent piece by New York Times, in which Einstine calls Oppenheimer a 'narr' ie fool to subject himself to the Kangaroo court. Parallels with today, and Trump and Putin: Today, Vladimir Putin’s not-so-veiled threats to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in… Continue reading Oppenheimer
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