I read this today (I won’t say where because I have no wish to embarrass the writer or the publication): In the heart of Africa, energy giant Total is about to build the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world. To […]
Month: August 2020
The sway, half-truths, and the rife
Awarding A-level school-leaving qualifications (or not) has been a hot topic of late, prompting memories of a favourite exam expression: ‘compare and contrast’. How would pupils react if asked to apply that to two newspaper reports? The first reads: “UK […]
Trying to catch the wind – and succeeding, all too well
Carbon emissions are invariably highlighted as the major culprit in climate change, but there is another contributor – possibly even more damaging – that has been overlooked almost completely. For decades, long before climate change became such a dominant global […]