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National self-delusion
The BBC today features a supposedly factual article in its Science & Environment section entitled “Climate change: how is my country doing on tackling it?”. It is dangerously misleading. The article consists mainly of an interactive chart: the user types in the country of interest and up pops a graph showing the historical GHG emissions…
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Simple living
According to Mark Twain, when he was 16 his father knew nothing, but by the time he was 21, it was amazing how much he had learnt. Twain’s father may have been ultimately fortunate. A gloomier perspective on children’s attitudes to their parents was offered by Oscar Wilde: children start off loving their parents; then…