Atlantic Ocean Currents

This is a talk by Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf, Head of Earth System Analysis at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University, on dramatic changes in Atlantic ocean currents. It’s already had over 1m views. Here my half-hour presentation in Vilnius a week ago! pic.twitter.com/TGApNtmuWK One of […] Source

The SNP has not yet understood what opposing genocide requires

“A person is courageous so long as he has no need for courage, but he collapses when the issue becomes real, and he is forced to understand courage as an act of ‘surrender’, a detachment from human involvement, and his content himself with being a spectator rather than a participant in life.” – Ghassan Kanafani […] Source

Time for a new indy strategy

With the SNP conference about to start and the post mortem of the party’s poor performance in July’s Westminster general election under way, it’s fair to say that there is now general agreement within the wider Scottish independence movement that the independence strategy inherited from Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon is…

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Starmer’s honeymoon is over. I mean it was over a long time ago but now it’s over over. With some great stock phrases and familiar economics (George Osborne wants his policies back), Keir Starmer spoke of ‘tough times ahead’ and ‘No more sticking plaster politics.’ The slogan ‘Fixing the Foundations’ was rolled out, which sounds […] Source

A Highland Spaceport Fantasy

A HIGHLAND SPACEPORT FANTASY: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn It was often told to me as I grew up, by those who were my elders and betters and whom I supposed knew what they were on about, that I would amount to nothing. Now, after nine books of poetry, two novels […] Source

Living in the Ruins

Oasis may be re-forming but Britpop isn’t. D:ream’s ‘Things can only get better’ has turned into a nightmare. Labour’s new miserabilism – “things can only get worse” – is deeply ideological and is foreshadowing the government’s plans. In a speech today Starmer will say his government has inherited “not just an economic black hole but […] Source