Who Are The Flat Earthers?

If he means people who deny that there is climate change at all, then he has a point. There is always climate change, but there are currently those who deny it outright. However, it is worth pointing out that there has been no climate change of a certain specific kind - global warming - this century. The suggestion that the whole thing was or is caused by human behaviour has been exposed as a gigantic scientific fraud. Thank you, Mother Russia.

One of the contestants on The X Factor had a montage playing behind him, including our old friend, the polar bear trapped on a tiny remaining slab of ice. But that was filmed in August, when the Alaskan ice melts anyway. In case you didn't know, polar bears can swim. So they just swim to the nearest land, which is always extremely close at hand. Polar bears never wander out far across the frozen sea only to be left stranded and in danger of drowning when the season of the year changes. Still, that contestant has just been eliminated. Certain thinking also needs to be.

And what of Nigel Lawson? When he was Energy Secretary, he raised questions about why he drew his own salary when he said that the Government neither had, nor ought to have, an energy policy. But that is certainly not his view today. Will he now say that not only should there be such a policy, but it should include, along with lots of nuclear power, lots of coal, not dole?