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Author Archives: Marcus Toynboyalé

GOODBYE TO SATIRE

Featuredby Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

If you were a visitor here over the last two years thank you for coming. However, in the end the visitor count stalled at low levels making the site unviable […]

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They don’t all leave notes

January 14, 2016by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

There is, apparently, a war on against Straight White Men. SWM, it’s said, are the newly marginalised, denied protection and resented by society. “If you want proof,” they say, “look at Cologne: […]

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Drone killings: (1) We need a judicial review (2) Cameron must green light memorial solar plant

September 24, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé 1 Comment

Following the principled lead of Caroline Lucas MP, today LFG wishes to add its own voice to legal campaigning organisation Reprieve’s call on David Cameron to hold a judicial review into the lethal drone strikes carried out […]

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Comedian Jon Mason: I was being f*cking serious

July 9, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

As serious critiques go, comedian Jon Mason’s brief analysis of identity politics last week must rank as one of the weakest pitches for intellectual gravitas in history. The reaction to his […]

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Ali B?

July 6, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

In the Independent today the new chief executive of Friends of the Earth, Craig Bennett, finally acknowledges the environmental movement is too white and too middle-class and needs to engage […]

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Pachauri Breaks Silence on Mysterious Resignation from IPCC

June 14, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé 1 Comment

By Marcus Toynboyalé & Brad Keyes Former climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri has at last provided some public clues as to why he stepped down as the moral voice of the […]

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Campaign: random & disharmonious notes for seatbelt-warning signals

April 4, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

Giant multinational car manufacturers are putting your safety at risk – for profit. LFG has identified a weakness in seatbelt warning beep systems: namely, they do not randomise and dis-harmonise […]

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Brain Zero

April 2, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

Because of the unique way we organise the website, please click here to go to the BRAIN ZERO page. Thanks very much.

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NoMeatNoHeat claim

March 26, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

From the NoMeatNoHeat climate action group, today. Interesting. Fuck me. Maybe we’re getting somewhere.

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Protest-jacking: the new phone-hacking

March 24, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

GUEST POST BY STEWART JEFFERYS OF THE GUARDIAN   First they came for celebrities’ voice mail, hacking their way past default passcodes to the salubrious morsels contained therein with wolf-like […]

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No platform for offensive petitions

March 11, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

Today Jeremy Clarkson was suspended from the BBC show Top Gear for allegedly landing a blow on his producer’s head (over an argument about food). As per the use of the […]

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Climate Hub

February 9, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

As you can see from the chart, LFG rates amongst the top five UK institutions passionate about reporting on climate change. Over the last year in particular we’ve made it […]

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MENTAL HEALTH HUB

February 9, 2015by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

MENTAL aHEALTH ARTICLES Our articles on mental health Spread the decimal The real mathematics of stigma Let’s talk Elizabeth on talking Ignorance is not an excuse Discrimination against minority groups

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2014: A year of…

December 31, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 1 Comment

Since our new launch at the start of the year your Best-Non-Governmental-Organisation-Forever thankfully gained a lot of interest from concerned people all over the world. Brilliant. Thanks to everyone who […]

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Academics need to let off steam too

November 10, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 1 Comment

GUEST POST BY PROFESSOR STEPHAN LEWANDOWSKY OK, here are the facts folks: the climate change debate can get heated and personal. As active participants in that debate Richard Pancost and I […]

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Avaazin’ it large

October 16, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 1 Comment

Dear LFG reader, Thanks for signing our petition on [that particular issue] and supplying us with your email address as a necessary part of that process. We will let you know […]

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Oh, Clacton

October 9, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

It’s 10.31 in Clacton, where I am now. Reports are coming through that the really terrible (climate-change denying, smoking friendly etc.) ‘political party’ UKIP has gained its first MP. Having […]

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Where were you the day climate scepticism died?

September 25, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 7 Comments

So on twitter and facebook at the moment everyone’s asking why the heavily trailed, historic ‘Brouhaha in Bristol’ between a bunch of climate sceptics (in the audience) and the object of […]

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Jeffery Archer: why I’ll be marching for the climate on Sunday

September 21, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 1 Comment

Millions of people will be gathering today all over the world to explain why action on climate change is needed urgently. Amongst them, Jeffery Archer, ex-MP turned novelist, stands out […]

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Big Denial heads to the UK

September 19, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

If you’re a regular reader the chances are you’re all too familiar with the work of Anthony Watts. Watts is the titular Watts from Watts Up With That, possibly the […]

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Two more minutes, just to make certain

September 10, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

With the president of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse, recently advising anyone interested in science to crush and bury anti-science types, web project Skeptical Science’s new 97 Hours of […]

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Judge the nudge

September 1, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

Today’s ‘informed choice’ architectonic: • Speedier walking near schools Don’t just ban bad-food consumption near schools, encourage higher walking speeds round schools, fostering better exercise role-modeling. This would also have […]

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The even bigger hidden disease

August 19, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 2 Comments

For people who work in mental health provision Robin Williams was a life saver. Often gruelling, unrewarding and grey, working in mental health is one of the hardest occupations a […]

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Why is Big Tobacco investing in e-bola?

August 4, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

With the news that a woman collapsed and died from suspected Ebola infection at Gatwick Airport today (it turns out she didn’t have the virus), scientists are warning of a […]

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The Big Climate Conversation

July 22, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 26 Comments

It remains true that we all live under the climate. And in Britain in particular, that means we love to talk about it. This is something to encourage: open, honest […]

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Just the binary, Auntie

July 9, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 51 Comments

Earlier this month there was some good news for the climate and people concerned about it: the BBC has finally woken up to the foolish idea of balance in the climate change […]

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Memo to UCL: meta-narrate the pause

July 3, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé 1 Comment

A few weeks ago it was ‘Time For Change’  according to University College London (UCL) in the way climate scientists engage with the public about the dangers of climate change by, for example, […]

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Spread the love?

June 18, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

You love 10:10     It’s more than obvious you love Friends of the Earth     And it couldn’t be plainer that you love Save the Arctic   So […]

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Vivienne Westwood: buy better, buy less

June 9, 2014by Marcus Toynboyalé Leave a comment

Attendee at the launch of Hillside Science Centre last week, Vivienne Westwood, as working class as she’s ever been, today launched her Talk Fracking campaign (talkfracking.org), backed by such luminaries […]

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