When is it all right to break the law? When you’re a burglar? Probably not. When you’re driving a car? Definitely not, if I am to believe angry correspondents denouncing my views on excessively slow speed limits. When you’re a…
Read: I’m a cyclist – trust me
Some people think I am obsessed by climate change. Of course you can’t help what people think: one rather deluded soul wrote to say I was carrying on a vendetta against the Eastern Daily Press – a newspaper for which…
An exciting front-page headline in the Eastern Daily Press yesterday – We Can’t Hold Back Mother Nature. Has the penny dropped at last? Is the UK going to abandon all the petty little carbon reduction measures that are making not…
Read: Giving in to nature
Alarming the punters has always been a lucrative source of income for newspapers. There’s no news like bad news. So it is no surprise to see the Norwich-based Eastern Daily Press – the biggest selling English regional paper – going…
Read: Cool news for sceptics
When there is no coherent argument, and thinking takes too much time, abuse comes easily to the editorial pen. Which explains why the Norwich-based Eastern Daily Press is happy to describe those who challenge its views on climate change as…
The climate change bandwagon depends for its progress on an engine powered by journalists and scientists. Unfortunately, both professions have taken a bit of a knock recently. Under the headline “The myth of the noble scientist”, an article by Terence…