- There 2 skeptics writing at Spiked : Brendan O'Neill, and Ben Pile at climate-resistance.org writes much more and in Spiked

- 30 years ago the left was telling us that the capitalists were exploiting the workers. Now it's the age of the individual ME. They are all asserting their rights (like little capitalists).
- The left are effectively saying "I am not someone working for a large org. No the orgs all work for ME"

- Like with the internet how much does the left want people to be charged for music, for written material etc ? Oh now "everything has to be free". Poor Graham writes for nothing ( except for the bonus you drop him every year).

- Meanwhile someone is collecting all our micro-data and selling it ..and they are all large corporations that profit from our data. A recent podcast told how it was a plan of the early internet that there would be micropayments for all blog writers .. (if I become a millionaire I will sponsor a scheme to double someone's donation to a blogger)

- Also strange how 30 years ago the powers were in the control of the right, but now much of it has come into the hands of the left. The state broadcasters, the Guardian, countless lobbying NGO's often sustained by EU handouts , so effectively the EU lobbying itself. And the guilt trip of Climate Change Alarmism has provided a gravy train, co-sponsored by government directly and indirectly via subsidies to Green businesses flogging solar panels, windpower, eco-consulting etc.

As a footnote, from the 60s onwards, the 'protest movement', high-minded, anti-establishment, increasingly certain of its rightness, was able to establish itself as a properly 'alternative' vision for all our futures in the West. It is hugely ironic that these self-same strivers after human freedoms have now, in turn, become a new establishment, as blinkered, intolerant and self-satisfied as those who, in their youthful idealism, they sought to over-turn.

Not much changes.

Oct 25, 2013 at 5:54 PM agouts

1950 Graham bosses the students
2013 The students boss Graham
leads to lower standards ? (actually my teachers knew nothing about real world electrical work)

- Apply to green
1970 - greens can live offgrid on a farm unsubsidised, we pollute the air
2013 greens can consume & fly like everyone else, WE all have to pay the extra

observe how this "We know right, we have to act now, shut up "denier"" seems like green-totalitarianism .. green becomes right-wing

rise of the "nasty" left
I noticed how the formerly liberal CFI www.cfiuk.org used to be libertarian, then they brought on Chris Mooney (Republicsn brain book saying right are anti-science.) maybe to add balance and get left wing people in. But his lot have successfully infitrated CFI. His episodes are him interviewing his mates and spreading propaganda together.

- left have successfully infitrated authorities and dynamic is to protect the cause.
Left wing loons or wrong doers are not called out, only right wing ones.

- REAL scientists disagree with alternative reality from BBC Guardian fabricate in their articles :
- Blog of Arctic scientists complaining how media breed Arctic scare stories