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Joe Biden’s climate bill is gaslighting the nation

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The green-tinged “Inflation Reduction Act” won’t cut prices or carbon emissions. Read my Spiked article in full here.

Bernie’s green policies are an assault on the working class

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His proposed bans on fossil fuels and fracking will cost millions of jobs and send energy prices soaring. Read my Spiked article in full here.

The Google memo and the new blacklisting

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When did it become acceptable to sack someone for expressing an opinion? Read my Spiked article in full here.

Paris: it’s not the end of the world

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We need a serious debate about climate change, not anti-Trump fearmongering. Read my Spiked article in full here.

This ban is a fracking outrage

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New York’s ban on fracking is an act of pure green elitism. Read my spiked article in full here.

Oklahoma: a swirling storm of anti-human prejudice

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As people in Oklahoma heroically dealt with their tornado disaster, observers were busy pinning the blame for it on greedy mankind. Read my spiked article in full here.

Food prigs and “happy” pigs

Mark Bittman is a food journalist and the author of the recently-published book Food Matters, which he describes as ” a look at the links among eating too much meat, obesity, global warming, and other nasty features of modern life”. Naturally, Bittman is a critic of McDonald’s, but he lauds the firm for its latest move, which requires […]

To think, unplug your machines

Advice from IBM on how to foster innovative thinking. Employees are given time on Friday to just think, away from the office cubicle.

Reason versus emotion? It’s a false dichotomy

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With its elevation of intuition over reason and the unconscious mind over rational thought, David Brooks’ new book is an explicit attack on Enlightenment values. It’s time we defended rationalism and passion. Read my review of The Social Animal, in the spiked review of books, here.

No panic over nuclear power in the US

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The Pew Research Center finds that 52 percent of Americans are now opposed to the increased use of nuclear power, up from the 44 percent opposed before the radiation leakages at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant.  These numbers can be read as a sign that the Japanese crisis has changed many minds. But it is important […]

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