It’d be interesting to know how much of that is a mercantilist attempt to capture market share in other countries (i.e., dumping) and how much is reflective of a sincere effort by the Chinese government to address the climate crisis.

I suspect it’s the former, since alongside China’s renewables investment, China’s emissions of greenhouse gases continue to grow, as does its consumption of coal.

I agree with the need for tactical voting. I absolutely disagree with the desirability of ever voting for Reform, even to drive the Tories out.

That would be nice, but I’m more pessimistic and think low-information voters (along with the usual racists, xenophobes and other hateful morons) might vote Reform as a protest.

It’ll be interesting to see where he settles and whether his legal troubles are over.

This is likely to become an issue with climate modeling as well, as interested parties attempt to poison the discourse with fake analysis and phony effects models. Perhaps, with the banks, the Fed should require the use of open, peer-reviewed models and reject the use of any closed-source model.

So they’ve moved past denial to bargaining?

Millennials, if there’s anything an old guy can do to help…?

One of the low-hanging fruit in combating climate change is to shut down all the golf courses.

They’re all about immanentizing the eschaton.

I read somehwere that some of those creeps even support Nigel Farage. Ewwww.

It’s barely even a Batman movie, it’s just another Tim Burton movie. That guy has milked the same shtick for decades.

There is no one universally right way to do activism.

There are, however, many ways that are demonstrably wrong.

If you’re acting in a way that gives rise to credible speculation that you’re secretly funded by Big Oil, maybe it’s worth considering the possibility that you’re a counterproductive cosplaying fool.

We need a diversity of tactics.

Running unarmed at a machine-gun nest is a tactic. But a diversity of tactics is only a good thing when those tactics actually work.

They could also read The Monkey Wrench Gang and start taking direct action against the real perpetrators and their assets rather than random soft targets.

I suspect that Powell would be disgusted by someone like Farage. Powell was wrong-headed and eccentric, but not a con artist. And he was responsible for the deaths of many Nazis and Japanese Imperial soldiers.

Because he actually did say the opposite of what was quoted? It wouldn’t be the first time he was talking out both sides of his mouth.

But the part they like is that he blamed the West for somehow forcing them into a war of aggression against a weaker neighbouring county that they had already invaded in 2014 and whose government they had interfered with, including installing their stooge Yanukovich.

They can ignore the disclaimers, they got the substantial part of their deal.

Now he can enjoy dirty Russian money via back channels, just like Le Pen, Orban and the rest of the jackbooted shits.

Any headline involving the words Farage, Trump and stump evokes horrible mental images.

Mr Toad is a toady. Imagine that.

There’s also a reasonable chance that Farage taking over the Cons will ensure their total destruction, leaving Labour as the party of the centre right, and a slightly more leftish party (LibDems or Greens) as the opposition.

Most people I know who have expressed an opinion regard him as an oleaginous, self-interested git. I see no evidence that they’re mistaken.