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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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Working to solve the problem of no-platforming imaginary voices

October 13, 2015by Elizabeth Chosen Leave a comment

Ever heard of schizoflatulalia? Probably not. It’s the condition where you hear voices in your burps. In the early days you took drugs for it: medication which forced digestive gas […]

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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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Actually, yes, why not, let’s frack

September 12, 2015by Anthony Giddey Leave a comment

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I have been saying for FIVE YEARS now that climate change, in the form of climate COOLING, is upon us. Please see this […]

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Nylon Polymers and OCD: new links

July 10, 2015by Elizabeth Chosen Leave a comment

Synthetic polymers including aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides commonly found in household cleaning materials could play a direct role in the development of obsessive-compulsive disorder researchers say. The team at King’s College […]

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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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Ask Giddey to ask Giddens later

March 17, 2015by Anthony Giddey Leave a comment

If you’re having trouble getting your question through to Ens at the Bristol talk and online, ask Ey (me) – and I’ll pass on your question later on, over drinks. […]

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Because I’m Happy

March 17, 2015by Adam Connolley Leave a comment

And still the amazing peoples of the small island of Vanuatu teach us how to live with grace and equanimity – even in the face of terrible devastation, as happened […]

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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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Page 3 free, at last

January 20, 2015by Mary Ann Jarvis 2 Comments

No more page 3. That’s the wonderful news this morning. This doesn’t mean, like floor thirteen in skyscapers, that when you open your newspaper in the morning you’ll be jumping […]

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Libertés d’équilibrage (balancing freedoms)

January 14, 2015by Mary Ann Jarvis 2 Comments

Je suis Charlie. That should be obvious. But in all the principled talk recently of defending to the death the right of others to say, express or display hurtful, disagreeable […]

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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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Internet trolls ruin their own ontological security

November 25, 2014by Elizabeth Chosen Leave a comment

Internet trolls ‘poison our national life’ UK justice minister Chris Grayling declared in October, and ‘should face two years in prison’. But a case proceeding through the courts of Portland, Oregon, highlights the […]

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It’s not just Dr Matt Taylor’s printed shirt

November 14, 2014by Mary Ann Jarvis 2 Comments

If you remember, recently we enrolled imaginary activist Esbyssius Fairweather on the now 40 million strong membership list of campaigning organisation Avaaz, but being politically confused (about climate change) she then […]

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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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Ignorance is not an excuse

September 29, 2014by Elizabeth Chosen 1 Comment

Over my fourteen years working in civil society, raising awareness about the plight of disadvantaged groups stands out as the most frequent request those disadvantaged groups make of us. With […]

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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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