Can of worms

Just to remind you, this is the week my splendid anti-Left polemic How To Be Right is published and if you Speccie readers aren’t its natural constituency I don’t know who is. So buy it, please, or I’m never going to be able to put Boy through that brilliant prep school I mentioned a few weeks ago, and instead of Latin and Greek, all he’ll ever be taught about is Diwali, Mary Seacole and global warming.

Talking of which, I should like to thank two ideologically disparate institutions for having saved my bacon this week. The first  is the Centre for Policy Studies, which published Martin Livermore’s timely report on climate-change science rebutting the more hysterical claims of the eco-lobby. The second is Channel 4, which broadcast terrestrial British television’s first major exposé of the international ‘man-made global warming’ conspiracy.

Before these two lifelines appeared, I don’t mind telling you, I was absolutely bricking it.