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The end of the world is nigh? Environmentalists, Fascism and Eco-Collapse

If the earth is going to die screaming, as UB40 prophesised, what political forms will emerge before it dies?

For many in the environmental movement, fascism is not just a future threat, but is encapsulated in today's campaigns to save fossil fuels. Worse, those fuels themselves have always been brown - that is fascist, and never green.

I think much of that world view is nonsense, and have set out a three page argument in the current Notes From the Borderland magazine, making that very point. There is also room along the way for comment on political figures as diverse as Paul Mason, Boris Johnson, Roger Hallam, Tommy Robinson, and the National Union of Mineworkers campaign against apartheid.

You can order a copy of NFB here, and can find a pdf of my article below.

Download Eco-Fascism Stott NFB 12 2024

The Joy of Old Books - What's Tucked Inside The Greatest Treason: The Bizarre Story of Hollis, Liddell and Mountbatten?

My current reading is this 1990 title, by the late espionage writer Richard Deacon.

I am only 60 pages in, but it does seem this is an apologia for MI5 and a rebuttal of the view that the Service's Director General from 1956-65, Roger Hollis, was a Soviet spy. How else to take a book which claims one of Hollis' greatest rivals and chief inquisitor, Peter Wright "served in MI5 for a relatively short period" (p.6) Wright actually served for 21 years, being recruited as the organisation's principal scientist, going on to specialise in counter-intelligence.

One joy of buying and reading second hand books from thirty plus years ago, is that they so often come with news cuttings and other bits and pieces tucked away inside them. In this case it is not a news clipping or an obituary, but a series of comments written on the previous owners bookmark.

No one using a kindle will ever know the pleasures of such random discoveries. May they be preserved for ever!

The Decline and Fall of Brother Tariq

For a time, Tariq Ramadan was the epitome of what western elites felt they needed - the Muslim theologian they could do business with.

You can read The decline and fall of Tariq Ramadan here, or view it as a pdf below.

Download The decline and fall of Tariq Ramadan The Spectator.pdf 12 09 2024