Up In the Air: not quite tough enough
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 12 February 2010. No comments.
George Clooney’s Up In the Air (2009) is in a long and noble tradition (maybe two), and it very nearly delivers. More »
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Richard D North welcomes you to his new blog. (It links to my old site, now archived.) I am a right-winger, in love with the free market and arguing against the soft-left, liberal, green, PC consensus. Oh, and I'm a conflicted softie. A bit hippy and arty round the edges too. More »
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RDN on BBC R4 on climate change
Posted by RDN under Climate change on 8 February 2010. No comments.
On the radio today (BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours) I made a fair fist of describing my position on the trustworthiness of climate change science and the IPCC. I did slightly mispeak… More »
Top reads of 2009
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 24 January 2010. No comments.
I keep meaning to try to do justice to the books I read. Here is a list of some of the things which rocked my world in 2009. More »
Top TV shows of the noughties
Posted by RDN under TV and Radio on 10 January 2010. No comments.
Here, roughly in order, are my top TV shows of the noughties. Surely a vintage period? More »
Top films of the noughties
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 10 January 2010. No comments.
In no particular order, here are my top movies of the last ten years. Surely, a vintage period?
Casting around in “Fishing In Utopia”
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 1 January 2010. No comments.
Note: If this were a review, it could have been much shorter and just said: “Buy this book. It’s lovely, sharp and beguiling”. I wanted to write something which drew on the experiences Andrew Brown and I shared, not least but not only at the Independent in the late 1980s. I also wanted to touch on the whole business of memoir- and nature-writing. More »
Spiked Online: in a climate muddle
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 December 2009. No comments.
The little Spiked essay introducing its After Copenhagen climate debate lays out a devil-may-care progressive, anti-green agenda. That’s good fun. But it doesn’t address the difficulty that mankind may have to act on AGW. More »
Compare: Cameron & Blair and 1997 & 2010
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Politics and campaigns on 24 December 2009. No comments.
Here we go again. We are headed for an epoch-making election with an opposition leader who has a horror of authenticity. We don’t need atavastic politics, but it is a big danger that we have political stars whose charisma depends on being bland and controlling. Mr Cameron could do far better. More »
Mail On Sunday: RDN not guilty
Posted by RDN under Climate change on 20 December 2009. No comments.
Dear Reader, I didn’t write the piece which appeared under my name in the Mail On Sunday today. More »
Eating in the 7th arrondissement
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 11 December 2009. No comments.
Is this the best eating in Paris? Quite possibly. Here’s my case for L’Auberge Bressane, and the neighbourhood food shops, in the “toney” 7th arrondissement. It’s all a demonstration of the homage affluence pays to authenticity. More »
