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Uncooperative crusties for life

At the beginning of last week I was in London taking part in Extinction Rebellion’s October demonstration. Here are a few of my photos from the action, alongside a column that I have written for a couple of the local papers in Cumbria.

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Keswick Climate Strike

Today, supported by my company, I attended the Climate Strike in Keswick, organised by pupils at the Keswick School who are members of the UK Student Climate Network. This formed part of a Global Climate Strike that has been coordinated by 350.org and FridaysForFuture. It has been such an inspiring day, and I wanted to get the photos that I had taken posted as soon as possible.

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Concentric, eccentric by Felice Varini

I was very happy to finally make it to Carcassonne last week. It has been on my list since reading Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth over a decade ago. As we got our first glimpse of the spectacular citadel, we noticed something a bit odd! Gaudy yellow stripes streaked across the city walls and towers.

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Hopkins, Trump and the Resistable Rise of Stupidism.

A reblogging of this post:

Hopkins, Trump and the Resistable Rise of Stupidism.

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New Year’s Day walk

A walk around Loweswater to see in the New Year.

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New and improved blog, with a .blog domain

Thanks to some wonderful colleagues of mine, this blog is now found at: jack.blog

If you would like a .blog domain, head over to: get.blog

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Skiing in Scotland

Beautiful day skiing the Back Corries at Nevis Range on Monday 15 February 2016.

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Takodana

Afternoon stroll.

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Julie’s House (A House for Essex)

Spectacular Grayson Perry-designed house where we spent the last few days.

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The myth of fish oil and the ‘Eskimo diet’

After discussing veganism with some friends yesterday, the suggestion that inuit diets were the best for preventing heart disease etc came up. I didn’t really know much about it, so I looked it up when I got home, only to discover it’s a myth based on a discredited study from the 70s. Bizarrely though, the fact that it was debunked doesn’t seem to have stopped the craze for fish oil supplements.

Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.

– Jonathan Swift


Photo: Ville Miettinen/flickr