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Why Climate Change Deniers Don’t Actually Deny the Climate
I’ve been doing a bit of reading into why some people refuse to accept climate change, and it turns out the answer is a bit more complicated than assuming they failed GCSE Science and have been quietly pissed off about it ever since. The evidence suggests that, for many people, rejecting climate change has surprisingly little to do with the climate. It’s ...
Restore the Great British Past. Bring Back Smoking in Pubs… and While We’re At It, Polio
Restore UK has decided one of Britain’s great lost treasures is smoking in pubs. Restore is a wonderfully appropriate name because, if we’re restoring things, let’s stop being half-hearted about it. Why cherry-pick one outdated idea when we can bring back the entire catalogue? Why stop at smoking in pubs? Let’s bring back polio. It will give ...
Derek ‘Del Boy’ Watson: One of Life’s Good People
It’s funny how friendships evolve as we get older. Some quietly fizzle out, others become more distant, while a precious few remain wonderfully consistent. Those are often the friendships where people evolve at roughly the same pace. I once read that if you still have exactly the same opinions and life skills at 60 as you did at 30, you’ve probably wasted 30 ...
The Chaise Longue World Cup Draws to a Close
Argentina Go Out in Style in an American Jolly Jamboree of Old Bollocks Yesterday felt strangely flat. For six weeks the chaise longue had become my office, my press box and, occasionally, my therapist. There had been moments of breathtaking football, moments of utter tedium and enough time during VAR delays to complete a small home extension, but overall it ...
The Day after The Final Chaise Lounge Game
Firstly, thank you to everyone who has read, liked, commented on and shared my ramblings from the Chaise Lounge over the last few weeks. They were never meant to be anything more than the thoughts of a middle-aged bloke shouting at a television and occasionally frightening the dog, but so many of you came along for the ride. It made the World Cup feel like something ...