Comments on: A great global warming night’s entertainment

By: Ann O'Dyne

Ann O'Dyne — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:20:27 +0000

You’ll have to fish yourself out of the spamulator over at Quiggins – while there I thought I would get to you via his link … but it doesn’t work.
As a blogger, I am not sufficiently ‘alpha’ to point this out to him …

re Harry & Reg and Hermione:
For the Very Widely-read bloggers, there is an exchange of comment going on
(at Pavlov’s I think),
about the characters names referencing other books

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:19:20 +0000

Thanks Ms O’Dyne – sorry I had to fish you out of the spamulator – won’t happen again ma’am.

By: Ann O'Dyne

Ann O'Dyne — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:11:00 +0000

Thank you BalconyWoman.
That post was great in 14 different ways, so I’ll just say
Get Well Soon!

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:57:59 +0000

So she did have some scientific credentials

Thatcher was Dorothy Hodgkin’s honours student – Hodgkin was a pioneer in chemistry and Nobel Laureate. Many of Hodgkin’s peers were communist sympathisers; how this shaped Thatcher’s view of science is open to speculation

By: paul walter

paul walter — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:23:45 +0000

So, those nutters in the audience, eg the odd middle-aged woman disguised as a hippy are, “Larouchites”. Will google like crazy in a minute.
As it happens, I thought the youngish bloke in the straight suit with the vague unsmiling exprssion that started up on about greenie conspiracy theories a bit later; who looked like a cross between a bible-basher and a neoliberal, was amazing.
If the “audience” was supposed to represent a cross section of the public all this writer can suggest is, “Cuckoo’s Nest” and Foucault combined feel doomed. Except, looking at what Ruddock did to that Indian doctor , suspect it is true anyway.
Hieronymous, here we come!

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:33:04 +0000

...And it's gold, gold, gold! for Tim Sterne.

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:23:31 +0000

Brian, that is intriguing. So she did have some scientific credentials. I’ll never look at a soft serve quite the same way again.

By: david tiley

david tiley — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:17:08 +0000

I found myself in another place today writing about the two denialists on the panel. “They started off by being patronising, but by the end they looked like a pair of old horses tethered in the rain.”

I laugh at my own jokes, and that one tickled me enormously.

By: Brian Bahnisch

Brian Bahnisch — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:22:06 +0000

Helen, I heard James Lovelock interviewed by Phillip Adams today. Lovelock says Thatcher had a background as a scientist, used to call him in regularly for a chat, bought the Gaia concept etc. It turns out she was a research chemist and "was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. "

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:26:23 +0000

Wasn’t it lovely. I think Breugelhead there actually had studied ‘under’ Larouche. Like you said, “…”