Mankind is Doomed
Part of the plot of the Bless This House film, which I'm watching instead of doing something useful, sees Sally "Soft G" Geeson campaigning as a teenage radical - Greta Thunberg in a train driver's cap - against the horrors of pollution, something her dad, Sid James, is actively engaged with, the pound signs dancing in his eyes like Nigel Farage rubbing his hands at a fly-tipping site. This film is 54 years old and, while Sally is depicted as shrill and hectoring, she's never depicted as wrong. Bless This House knew pollution was an existential threat half a century ago. Why do so many politicians not seem to? Doomwatch was all about this shit when I was a baby. Everybody knew. They knew enough to put it on TV when there were only three channels. Everybody knew. Looks like Ed Milliband is going to be drilling for gas and oil in Rosebank, something Trump was urging Starmer to do, as part of his mission to extract all the resources of the earth and set them on f...
