lefthandpalm

 From the Guardian : > The Observer understands that as well as backing away from its > £28bn a year commitment on green investment (while sticking to the > overall dr...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/02/unsurprising.html

The grey man of British politics ... Original picture, ITV News Anushka Asthana has written a generally favourable profile of Keir Starmer in the Guardian .  It is lightweight stuff, pander...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/01/keir-starmers-abstract-thinking.html

You might recall 1998 was once the hottest year on record.   This is literally what it was like in 1998.  I was there.  Now EVERYTHING is on fire, all the time. It held this distinctio...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/01/remember-1998.html

It's just that their political representatives are ideological fanatics, in thrall to the Fox News / News Max / Breitbart demographic, bought by big business or just willing to say and do anythin...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/01/there-are-sane-conservatives.html

 ... The only question is, how badly. 2023 was the hottest year on record , 1.48C above the pre-Industrial Revolution average. > The planet was 1.48C hotter in 2023 compared with t...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/01/were-screwed.html

Just before Christmas, 2023, a swanky bach in Cook's Beach went up in smoke.  It was immediately claimed that some sort of electric vehicle was responsible, with the claim being advanced via soc...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/01/cooks-beach-fire-lies-and-propaganda.html

Citing concern over expanding oil and gas exploitation. From The Guardian : > “I can also no longer condone nor continue to support a government > that is committed to a cou...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/01/conservative-mp-chris-skidmore-resigns.html

2024 is off to a troubling start with the death of John Pilger.  That means there will be one less voice challenging  received ideas and make people think about stuff they have just taken for g...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2024/01/jon-pilger.html

The Guardian has a space filling piece about the possibility of a May election for Britain. This bit caught my eye: > If he fails to call an election in May, Labour may start to...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2023/12/may-election-in-britain.html

Which I will attempt to update throughout the night, depending on my whims and whether the night seems worth talking about. This election will be lubricated with Glenglassaugh Revival single Ma...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2023/10/2023-election-live-blog.html

 Apparently there is something happening somewhere, but we aren't allowed to discuss it for another hour.

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2023/10/something-something-something.html

Going to try to get into the blogging thing again (ha!) what with anew PM, an election coming up and all that. So today I thought I'd start small and simple, by merely tackling the world's (sec...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2023/01/mutterings-about-musk.html

 Jean Luc Godard and Hilary Mantel within a few days of each other? FFS, 2022.  Juck fuck off already.

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2022/09/real-royalty-dying-off.html

 Jonathan Freedland uses the fall of Boris Johnson to continue to fight two wars that any sane, non-obsessed man would have put behind him.  In an article titled Everything Tainted By Johnson's...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2022/07/things-we-already-knew-jonathan.html

 From the desk of Keir "Patriotic Duty" Starmer : > “We have robust lines. We do not want to see these strikes to go > ahead with the resulting disruption to the public...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2022/06/dear-striking-british-workers-f-you.html

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed the irony of Boris Johnson's desperate attempts to cling onto power. I recall, almost immediately after Jermey Corbyn was elected, a bunch of memes ...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2022/06/schadenfreude.html

 This makes me want to puke: > The Jubilee weekend isn’t just an opportunity for us to reflect on > the 70 years since Her Majesty’s accession to the throne – > a...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2022/06/go-away-you-ghastly-little-power.html

Apparently "centre-right" National will undo all the "tax hikes" that were "imposed" by Labour since 2017: > On Sunday Luxon is giving a “state of the nation” address in > Auck...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2022/03/not-surprising.html

 I might not be very good at maths but I never bought into the developing "Omicron is the Covid we can live with" narrative.  I remember reading that Omicron was about half as likely to end you...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2022/01/what-omicron-will-be-like.html

 A few weeks ago the government of New Zealand did something that seemed so egregiously stupid it spurred me out of my blogging lethargy and got me posting again.  I was furious at how they had...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2021/12/i-was-of-course-completely-wrong-we.html

 Says it all, really : > Lord Frost, who has led negotiations with the EU, is reported to > have handed in his resignation letter to Boris Johnson last week. > But the...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2021/12/conservative-peer-wants-us-all-dead.html

 So, Eric Clapton - estimated worth in the hundreds of millions of pounds - has successfully persecuted (sic) a German widow so hard up she was reduced to selling her dead husband's CDs on EBay....

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2021/12/eric-clapton-and-impoverished-german.html

 Boris Johnson is fond of history - the boyish, fun bits about wars, Empire and plucky Brits winning against the odds and what not.  He particularly fond of Winston Churchill and really, really...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2021/12/living-history.html

From Opinium , reported in the Guardian.  This, the Guardian is at pains to point out is the biggest lead the party has enjoyed since 2014 or (as they might have preferred to put it since Before...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2021/12/british-labour-take-9-point-poll-lead.html

From Stuff : I don't want to be pedantic, but I'm pretty sure neither masks nor vaccines figure much in the Gospel of Saint John; nor has Jesus shown much efficacy in protecting people from any...

http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2021/11/ill-take-masks-and-vaccines-thank-you.html