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Mann enough
His ‘hockey stick graph’ became the defining symbol of man-made climate change – and made him a special target of the fossil-fuel lobby. John Gibbons interviews Michael Mann
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Trump Dunes
The bombastic billionaire and his wad arrive in vulnerable Doonbeg. By Éibhir Mulqueen
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By Tony Lowes ‘Governments treat the information in their possession as a resource, to be doled out in amounts as they see fit, either copious flows or mean little trickles. I noted that ultimately, it is the Government that controls the tap – Emily O’Reilly, Information Commissioner 2003-13’ In a serious blow to […]
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’In a democracy the voters have a right to make stupid and irresponsible decisions, the right to vote for gombeens and bribetakers who will ignore development plans and rezone every blade of grass in the country’ ‘The Greens ,while in power, initiated the enquiries; Fine Gael and Labour put a halt to them – for […]
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Partridge leaves the building. Pat Kenny doesn’t like facing up to climate change by John Gibbons The classic comedy series I’m Alan Partridge where a former national chat show host is reduced to working the graveyard shift on a local radio station is chock-full of toe-curlingly awful moments. In one infamous episode, Partridge has insulted […]
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Little Emperors Few, except environmentalists, will miss China’s one-child policy Ken Phelan ‘In September 2013, Liu was taken to the Peopleʼs Hospital of Fangzi District, where she was administered a drug to abort her unborn foetus. She was six months pregnant’ ‘The Little Emperors are Chinaʼs future, single-minded and resolute, and may not be quite […]
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation Michael Pollan Penguin, New York, 2013 ‘before our ancestors learned to cook they would have had to devote fully half their waking hours to the act of chewing. Cooking gave our species an extra four hours a day’ ‘Pollan seemed to be saying: “just go to a farmers’ market […]