Love Brendan O’Neill. This article is nothing short of a straight home run against Moonbeam George Monbiot, a columnist in the Guardian with whom we’ve taken much issue in the past on this very blog (john-wright.net search term ‘Monbiot‘). By analyzing Monbiot’s past, we understand his present, and it’s quite ...
Read MoreMonbiot’s never happy
Thanks to my fellow blogger Stephen Graham for a recent spate of great contributions – I know they’ve been popular – including one in which he berates George Monbiot for his atrocious ignorance on libertarianism. Richly deserved. Moonbeam is, rightly, a target of this blog on occasion. He represents the ...
Read MoreMonbiot on Libertarianism
My article on the virtue of rational self-interest stirred up a bit of debate between one of our regular comment-leavers, Dave Powell, and I. Finishing up his contribution to the debate Dave left a link to an article by George Monbiot in which Monbiot has a little pop at libertarians ...
Read MoreMonbiot’s got a screw loose
Only in the mind of an ideologically impeded, politically delusional moron could America’s missile defense system be construed as as a threat of conflict on par with the cold war. Will the last sane, rational person to leave George Monbiot babbling please switch off the light? (Save energy.) John Wright ...
Read MoreMonbiot isn’t Billy Graham
It’s interesting when a regular stringer known for a particular political persuasion or field of interest writes something which illustrates how they frame the dynamics of the debate with which they are engaged, or how they see themselves in the context of that debate. George Monbiot, once a mainstay of ...
Read MoreRSS Feed and more
Happy Tuesday, punters. Since upgrading our software we’ve been having a few problems with the RSS feed on the site; I know many of you subscribe to the articles using RSS and we apologise for the issues. So far, there are no timescales for a fix, but I’ll post again ...
Read MoreOn waste
I recently wrote a piece on cellulosic ethanol, fuel created from two-thirds of what we’re currently throwing away, and what many are coming to believe will be the future of energy. In fact the more time one spends thinking about it, the more inevitable it seems that we’ll eventually be mining ...
Read MoreA Day In The Life Of The Guardian II
Man, I love this paper. Each and every day I sneak a peek, the columnists at The Guardian amuse and entertain me immensely with the insights they provide into how the British Left see the world. This post is a sequel to one I did a long time ago with ...
Read MoreRationality in the climate change debate
I’ve discussed my position on global warming many times on and off air and on this blog. But sometimes the dynamics of this debate concern me. The Academy Awards on Sunday night comprised a definitive point in this dialogue in America, with Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth) gaining star power ...
Read MoreEnvironmentalists get capitalism?
For environmental wackoists, Sir Jonathon Porritt could be either a traitor or a visionary. He is an aforementioned environmental wackoist himself, having been a ‘Friend of the Earth’ and a Green Party figurehead, and current advisor to the Blair government. To these groups of wackoists, what Porritt believes is wildly ...
Read MoreA few words about labels
I have had several exchanges recently with people who are sometimes confused by the oft-used political labels; labels like ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘liberal’, ‘conservative’, ‘libertarian’. It is easy to lament labels in general and simply redefine the terms to make them more logical. But language is a dynamic, fluid concept with ...
Read MoreIs climate change now "irreversible"?
The latest trend among environmental wackoists (a technical term meaning “One given to wackoismâ€) is to propagate and discuss the idea that global warming may now be “irreversible”. We’ve gone too far. We’ve damaged, plundered, raped, mutilated and butchered this fragile planet more than it can take. We’ve sprayed one ...
Read MoreSnapshots of Reason 1
1) Seems that the United States federal government are “stiffing” us again with spending of over $2,000,000,000.00 on viagra for the elderly and disabled. VIAGRA. Now that’s a ‘hard’ pill to swallow. 2) On energy policy – Monbiot had a piece (“Junk Science”) in the Guardian last week testifying to ...
Read MoreThe Airplane: a new whipping boy
George Monbiot just gets stranger and stranger. For those who don’t know of this fertile writer, check him out at his own website www.monbiot.com. The Lefty Leftist of Everything Left, who used to protest against the construction of roads, has clearly wired himself to the moon with this latest bizarre ...
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