The ‘elephant’ at YMG
Jamie Wrench reflects on Yearly Meeting Gathering
When I started writing this piece, the BBC was under fire again for giving Nigel Lawson, the former chancellor of the exchequer, peak airtime on the Today programme, no less, to peddle a whole bunch of falsehoods about climate change. It matters not that the following day (at 6.50am, not 8.15 am) they gave an expert the chance to debunk them, nor indeed that within a week the body he chairs, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), admitted at least one claim he made was false; nor even that the GWPF has fewer members than my little climate care charity in Shropshire. As we all know, it’s the big lie, told big, that embeds itself in the public consciousness.
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