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Main audience: everyone If you are not from or in the UK, you may think news of a changeover of Prime Minister is just like the last few times. I am far from alone in believing it isn’t. It will … Continued

Main audience: everyone As news hit about the USA folding its hand to Iran, I was answering a question about the USA’s national anthem. It’s awkward. But there is one line in the anthem that Americans can’t let go. Click … Continued

Main audience: everyone As you may have guessed from the gap in my pace here, something is going on in my household. Being in a whole world that is going crazy does not stop things from occasionally going topsy turvy … Continued

Main audience: everyone The latest rioting, violent “protest” & protests threatening to turn violent in the UK are incited by the same network inciting this elsewhere. But extremists are not the only ones to share ideas across borders. How this … Continued

Main audience: USA people We have until 15 June 2026 to submit our comments to the National Park Service about the arch DJT wants to build in Washington D.C. Whatever you think about the proposal, please tell the National Park … Continued

Main audience: everyone Recently I stumbled across a couple of message threads by climatologists who were new to me. I thought I was just learning more about AMOC, not politics, but everything seems to be tangled together these days. Click … Continued

Main audience: everyone Last night my wife & I did something we haven’t done before. We went to a ballet performance, for which you see the program here—Northern Ballet’s Gentleman Jack. It is every bit as good as friends have … Continued

Main audience: everyone, especially USA people A year ago talking about what to expect in the waning days of the regime in the USA may have seemed too optimistic. It looks reachable now. We can expect a surge of bad … Continued

Main audience: everyone I did not anticipate extremists would use consequences of climate change to advance their politics or quests for power. But I also wonder whether the catastrophic Republican agenda may have made it harder to leverage climate change … Continued

Main audience: UK people The UK can turn away from demonizing trans people, which is also a stealth attack on a wide range of others and a wedge that enables attacks on other segments of society. We need to act … Continued