Screenwriter (on 'Master and Commander', 'Happy Feet', ‘Tanna’ 'Hotel Mumbai' ...) Doctor and journalist. Interests include preserving a habitable planet.
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Stole my daughters copy (thanks auntie Sally) and listened to it on Audible over Christmas, Bridgid. Absolutely fantastic distillation of the best philosophy for living. Have been boring everyone with its virtues. Now Resolved to practise stoicism in 2023.
I also want to thank staff at @ReadingsBooks who voted for Reasons Not to Worry as their fav non fiction book of the year
Re-watching the excellent first series of “The Crown” - interested to learn that “Bagehot” - the key reference text on matters constitutional - is actually pronounced “batshit”
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William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space: "It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered." variety.com/2022/tv/news/wil…
I know nothing about internal Russian politics but found this article persuasive.
How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end? on Thinking about... snyder.substack.com/p/how-do…
I agree
Hi @AlboMP and @JEChalmers I’m a high earner and I’m doing fine but a lot of people aren’t. I’d be happy to forego tax cuts in favour of improved services in health, housing and education. Really, I don’t need the money and we’d all be better off without the cuts. #auspol
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Just a reminder that former vice president Aaron Burr was arrested and indicted for treason in 1807 for betraying American interests to foreign powers for personal gain. This was after he stood in the middle of 5th Avenue (Weehawken, NJ) and shot somebody (Alexander Hamilton).
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1/15 Hi! Don't laugh, but I'm back in the SHU. They let me out Sunday night, and Monday afternoon they locked me up again, making no secret of the fact that I won't be getting out of this hole again. I finally know what I'm in jail for though! In this regard, a little statement.
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Sit Bach and enjoy some cello in the west of Ireland summer breeze. From JS Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
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The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion.
This grotesque greed of the fossil fuel industry and their financiers is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home.
Yep, resentment is a powerful force and the strangest collection of highly privileged people seem to suffer from it - Putin, Murdoch, Trump, Steve Bannon, Mitch McConnell,
…It’s just hard to figure what they resent so deeply. The freedom of others to tread lightly in the world?
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Was a great pleasure to be involved as script consultant on this imaginative feature documentary.
Sarah Snook as the voice of Carbon - the creator and destroyer of worlds. ABC Australia Tues July 12th 8.30 pm xitter.cf/thecarbonmovie?s=11&t=…
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“For 1.5 degrees we’d have to cut emissions by 75% by 2030, not 26-28% or 43 or 50%. And we’d have to be net zero by 2035.” - Alan Kohler
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All you need to know about the energy market youtu.be/ELaBzj7cn14
Thaanks Andrew Denton: English Sport as seen by the Dutch. youtu.be/E_6d3JBBo4s via @YouTube