Lots of commentary on the media about how London rioters are using social media to coordinate their movements. But the converse holds, too: here’s a snap of people who turned up in Clapham to clean up after the riot, coordinated over Twitter. Meanwhile, here in Walthamstow – where we had riots on Sunday night – local people have turned the community centre into a canteen to provide food and tea for riot police through the night.
Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...