The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.11, 30th December 2020:
In the endless picking-over of the events of 2020, now and in the future, how many will care to inspect their past tendency to always project a rosy future irrespective of its demonstrable flaws?
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.12, 9th January 2021:
When daily technological interactions reach a critical performance tipping point, the only sure route to progress is marked, “Exit”
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.13, 25th March 2021:
Covid has exposed Britain’s endemic poverty, and the chaotic state of poverty-relief systems; is a possible solution, ‘food sovereignty’, being deliberately ignored?
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.14, 7th May 2021:
It’s been a year since ‘Planet of the Humans’ caused the leaders of climate campaigns to go into heated meltdown; by comparison, this film throws them an even greater challenge to try and respond to.
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.15, 12th August 2021:
YouTube has become a warped subliminal marketplace; a confidence trick of misdirection. Digitally disembodied people pretend to be your best friend, while the platform they use fleeces your computer of as much information as possible in order to commodify your soul.
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.16, 28th August 2021:
Did you know that, weight-for-weight, potatoes can store more energy than lithium-ion batteries?
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.17, 2nd October 2021:
Britain is to become part of a US network to ‘dominate space’. The UK government are promoting this as a way to create greater ‘security’ for our technological lifestyle. The reality about what this system is for, and the US military’s strategy behind it, is somewhat different to that public message of greater security.
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.18, 25th October 2021:
This is an over thirty-year long story about my involvement with contaminated sites, and helping communities to get action to clean them up. This tale is innately connected to my home town, Banbury. It’s an average small town; a backwater on the border between the Midlands and the South East. Yet in the 1980s, this place taught me about the issues of waste and land contamination. Not because it was exceptional, but because these issues affect communities across Britain.
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The ‘Meta-Blog’, no.19, 1st February 2022:
Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change – A Data Blog
Finding solutions to immediate problems and our future needs requires some difficult decisions, and if not thought-out, short-term thinking might create contradictory responses.
‘The Meta-Blog – short-form’, 16th March 2022:
Some days I have, ‘irony issues’. It probably comes from having a memory, which allows me to place past events alongside the moment I’m in, and thus appreciate the duplicitous nature of the modern political and media environment.
‘The Meta-Blog’, no.20, 23rd March 2022:
Rarely is there such a thing as, ‘just numbers’; too often people see the ‘magnitude’ not the ‘meaning’ that those numbers convey. Here I explain how a graph can show more than just raw numbers, and what that tells us about why change is so hard.
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