L and I are having a busy week, one which promises to get even busier. As I wrote yesterday, though, I can’t really tell you much about what is going on, save that, as with the Paralympic closing ceremony, you guys have a big surprise in store. However, I can tell you that our activity has involved a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in taxis.

Thus it was that, on our way home tonight, I had my first encounter with London talk radio. Never have I heard such repugnant, ill-informed bullshit in my life. Alright, the host sounded level headed half the time, and made some valid points; but at other times he struck me as a total loon. For example, he referred to climate change as ‘so called climate change’, as it was some far-fetched concept, made up to exploit people. This is both scientifically wrong and totally irresponsible: climate change is real – man is causing the earth to warm. The effects of this could be catastrophic, so we need to do something about it. What we do not need is numpties like Peter Hitchins in the tabloids, and on popular talk radio, trying to deny it’s reality. I have no problem with people sharing their views, but to be worthy of broadcasting those views must be bedded in some sense of reality (something which would probably bar ninety nine percent of British conservatives and one hundred percent of American republicans from the airwaves), especially on such serious issues. If their views lack that foundation but they still want to express themselves, then I suggest they just write a blog!