There have been endless pastiches-upon-pastiches of the zombie movie genre in recent years. As far as I can tell, the only significant development in the basic plot is that whereas zombies were once driven by supernatural forces, the contemporary living-dead seem more...

Jo Nova reports that  Prof Richard Parncutt, who suggested that climate change sceptics could face the death penalty for their crime, has taken down the original text of his argument and has apologised. Though I would have preferred a more convincing reflection on his...

I've been busy elsewhere... Work... Moving city/home, and going on holiday. Hence, no posts recently.  I've some catching up to do. Full service will be resumed in the New Year.  If environmentalism is a religion, it needs its religious festivals. The problem for...

One of the most persistent and peculiar ideas that has been given life by environmental thinking is its conception of 'efficiency'. Environmentalists like to believe that nobody has ever thought of efficiency before, and that it cannot be found without them. One...

I've been a bit busy for blogging lately. It happens. One of the things I've been working on is this film produced for the EFD group, starring UKIP chairman, Steve Crowther. The Lost Horizons website is here. One of the criticisms that the film got elsewhere (amongst...

I usually try to avoid looking at the seriously nutty end of environmentalism. Paul Kingsnorth's 'Dark Mountain Project' is one such collection of madness. The stories which any culture tells itself about its origins and values determine its direction and destination....

I have an article up on Spiked today about the emptiness of contemporary political grandstanding... In his speech to the Labour Party Conference earlier this month, leader Ed Miliband declared he was going to ‘do something different today’, to ‘tell you my story. I...

The 50th anniversary of Rachel Carsen's book, Silent Spring has produced a lot of discussion on the internet. Much of this has been rehearsed, ad nauseum. But 50 years is an opportunity to reflect on the failure of environmentalists past and present to successfully...

One of the more blunt points made on this blog from time-to-time is that mediocrity explains a substantial part of environmentalism's ascendency. It is a rot within public institutions of all kinds that can explain their greenish hue. To take one recent example, the...