Restating the obvious

It is sometimes worth restating obvious aspects of human nature and politics because their importance can be overlooked. Often deliberately overlooked, but as we know that's part of it. Climate change offers one of the most obvious examples of what we are.

If you create a fashionable, well-funded and scary scientific paradigm which supposedly affects everyone on the planet and is always in the news. If that paradigm is full of holes but it can be made plausible by scientific cherry picking and exaggeration, then you will attract plenty of second-rate scientists to support your paradigm. Most scientists are second-rate. That’s just how we are.

The same problem affects the sinister and crushing growth of globalism. Presumably this is a key reason why Boris went for Brexit. If globalism rules our future then why bother with the EU? On the global stage there are more and better opportunities for a former Prime Minister.