Jun Arima
Jun Arima is an economist, a former civil servant in Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and is now a Professor in the University of Tokyo. He has represented the Government of Japan in the Conferences of the Parties to the UN FCC on numerous occasions, and as one of the chief negotiators at COP16 in Cancun, he announced that Japan would not join Kyoto 2 under any condition or circumstances. He is also a Lead Author of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. His study, Eco-Fundamentalism as Grist for China’s Mill, is published this week by the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London.
Green gift for China
Failing climate policies create international discord that benefits no one but China
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life