It as though the traditional British virtue of keeping calm and carrying on has been shelved and we are all told by the media to panic, to fear the future, and to wring our hands in despair.

Things are not as bad as the media report; climate change will not remainder humanity on this planet in the next few years or even in the next few generations; wars end as well as start; inflation ebbs and flows; interest rates are usually managed by greedy incompetents, but somehow people manage; we will not starve to death or die of the cold.

Humanity as a whole is an intelligent species, robust and inventive. You would think that the media think of humanity as the opposite.

Readers of this blog will have seen my arguments against such policies as wood burning power stations, subsidising diesel car engines, using crops to create biofuels. I believe that my arguments made before the policies were put in effect, have been proved correct and the policies should have never been put into effect.

So it is with the present policy of achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. For a start you cannot measure emissions and those things that counter emissions of carbon dioxide with enough certainty to know whether net zero has been achieved, so ultimately the achievement will be an estimate. Then I understand the purpose of net zero is to protect humanity from the effects of rapid (relatively speaking) climate change. Of course ,humanity must be protected from the effects of rapid climate change but it is wrong to protect humanity if the “cure” has more deleterious effects than the disease. You do not protect humanity by impoverishing it or enacting policies that put lives at risk.

Of course Ukraine is fighting for her sovereignty, It has been invaded and seeks to assert its right to exist as a sovereign nation.

As far as I can tell the Ukrainians are very good at propaganda, both it getting it very widely disseminated and in its content. I have not seen or heard much of Russian propaganda; the news sources available to me hardly refer to it. In this case the Ukraine is attempting to draw the western democracies deeper and deeper in the war, claiming that they should combatants.

Of course, truth is always the first casualty of war, and this conflict is no different. Some truth has been ignored or distorted in the present conflict, including

1. the untruth that NATO is a purely defensive alliance;
2. the claim that Ukraine is a democracy; while it has some features of a democracy it does not fulfill all the requirements of one;
3. Civilian deaths’ caused by the Russian military are war crimes. They are not. If they were, then civilian deaths caused by the USA, the UK and other members of NATO in Syria, Iraq, Vietnam, Libya and other places would be war crimes, but they are not considered as war crimes by those who committed them.
4. No one mentions corruption in Ukraine.
5. No one mentions the money that the European Union has poured into Ukraine over the years.
6. No one mentions Hunter Biden

Eventuality history will write a less distorted view of this war than we are being fed now. With all the news agencies reporting the war is it too much to ask that they do so without distortions inaccuracies and untruths?

Fourteen years ago I wrote my first essay on these pages. It was about climate change and over the next years I wrote nearly three thousand more essays, mostly about climate change. These in aggregate comprise about two million words.

I had hoped to point out the dangers of climate change in a rational way, and I did a great deal of research to ensure my essays were accurate. I warned, without hysteria, and urged, without seeking to impose guilt, for people to change their behaviour and actions to prevent fast climate change. I urged governments to concentrate on practical measures, rather than on rhetoric, and advised for policymakers to see the problem of fast climate change in the round, warning of the risks of unseen by them (but foreseeable by me) of the consequences if they got things wrong. I hoped that if people understood the issues they would change their ways: I hoped in vain.

It would have been easier to change our energy uses 14 years ago and that would have inevitably slowed the rate of climate change considerably. Today change is harder, more expensive and potentially less likely to be successful.

When I started my essays in 2007, the atmospheric rate of carbon dioxide was about 380 parts per million. Today it is about 413 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas, but it a relatively simply measure of where the climate is and where it is going. If I looked at other greenhouse gases – nitrous oxide, methane, and water vapour There would be a similar rise in the concentration of those greenhouse gases over fourteen years.

For 13 or so years from 2007 I never got any invitations from public relations firms or governmental bodies about what they are doing about climate change. Today, when I have stopped writing about climate change barely a day goes by without receiving an email from a PR firm or governmental body asking me, in effect, to blog their boasts about what their client are doing to ensure a sustainable future.

Virtually all the information I receive from these sources do not amount to the proverbial hill of beans in this crazy world. For most corporations the issue of climate change has become a marketing device to signal virtue where no real virtue exists.

This is the true story of the most extraordinary court martial in British Military history. Major Frank Edmunds, an intelligence officer in the British Army in the Second World War, (who happened to be Jewish and gay), after demobilisation was accused with two junior officer of arranging the torture and mistreatment of two high ranking SS officers while he was an interrogator for the British Army based in Bad Nenndorf interrogating former Nazis. The interrogations in 1946 were undertaken to find out the truth of a suspected planned uprising in Germany to coincide with Hitler’s birthday on 20 April 1946. Frank Edmunds was probably the most skilled interrogator of that time and had previously obtained details of V1 and V2 rockets, German tank waterproofing and Hitler’s last will and testament by his interrogations. He also obtained information from leading German generals that he interrogated, all of which helped the war effort. Frank and two of his officers faced court martial proceedings to defend themselves against charges of disgraceful conduct of a cruel kind. This true story offers insight into this particularly political court martial held in 1948. The trial started in Germany and continued in London. The defence was conducted by Derek Curtis-Bennett K.C., who was one of the most brilliant counsel who ever practiced at the English bar. In the course of the 20 day hearing one of the former SS men absconded and had to be found and brought to court to give evidence, other witnesses for the prosecution who undertook the ill treatment in the form of beatings up refused to give evidence unless they were pardoned and there were many other highly unusual features of the court martial such as the interruption of the prosecution’s closing speech to interpose a witness. This book, thoroughly researched and based on Frank Edmunds papers, will be of great interest to military historians and lawyers providing insight to the work of British Intelligence in 1946 and the conduct of a complicated trial conducted by the most famous King’s Counsel of the day- Curtis-Bennett. This is one of the most important additions to military history and is relevant today when soldiers are at risk of criminal proceedings long after they have left the army and raises the inevitable issue of political influence on prosecutors’ decisions to start such proceedings.

I have written Disgraceful Conduct of Cruel Kind, which is the true story of an incredible court martial.

Major Frank Edmunds, an intelligence officer in the British Army in the Second World War, (who happened to be Jewish and gay), after demobilisation was accused with two junior officer of arranging the torture and mistreatment of two high ranking SS officers while he was an interrogator for the British Army based in Bad Nenndorf interrogating former Nazis.

The interrogations in 1946 were undertaken to find out the truth of a suspected planned uprising in Germany to coincide with Hitler’s birthday on 20 April 1946. Frank Edmunds was probably the most skilled interrogator of that time and had previously obtained details of V1 and V2 rockets, German tank waterproofing and Hitler’s last will and testament by his interrogations. He also obtained information from leading German generals that he interrogated, all of which helped the war effort. Frank and two of his officers faced court martial proceedings to defend themselves against charges of disgraceful conduct of a cruel kind.

This true story offers insight into this particularly political court martial held in 1948. The trial started in Germany and continued in London. The defence was conducted by Derek Curtis-Bennett K.C., who was one of the most brilliant counsel who ever practiced at the English bar. In the course of the 20 day hearing one of the former SS men absconded and had to be found and brought to court to give evidence, other witnesses for the prosecution who undertook the ill treatment in the form of beatings up refused to give evidence unless they were pardoned and there were many other highly unusual features of the court martial such as the interruption of the prosecution’s closing speech to interpose a witness.

This book, thoroughly researched and based on Frank Edmunds papers, will be of great interest to military historians and lawyers providing insight to the work of British Intelligence in 1946 and the conduct of a complicated trial conducted by the most famous King’s Counsel of the day- Curtis-Bennett.

This is one of the most important additions to military history and is relevant today when soldiers are at risk of criminal proceedings long after they have left the army and raises the inevitable issue of political influence on prosecutors’ decisions to start such proceedings.

You can pre order it from Amazon Kindle. It will come out on 30 July 2021, although the cover design will probably change by then.

This must have been a decision made by a computer and not a real human being, because the cover depicts statutes (in the classical Greek Style) of a man and a woman, which statues have been eroded by the elements and have had their noses broken off. In classical times many statues underwent a nose breaking off process. This was one of the earliest examples of iconoclasm. In the case of Greek statues the noses tended to wear away.

I have tried to appeal this decision by Amazon’s computer but the link to appeal that Amazon sent to me did not work. the appeal link was broken, like the noses on my statue.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/57439529-tears-cannot-help-us

Do you think this is overly sexualised content?