Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has extended a line for the military's religious leaders to reach him directly — and current and former military chaplains say they don't want it.

Hegseth announced the creation of a new Office of Religious Affairs on September 30, vowing that the office would give members of the armed forces' chaplain corps access to him without "bureaucratic dilution." It coincides with his openly Christian "Send Me" campaign, an online propaganda effort that the Pentagon launched over the summer promoting a biblical phrase widely understood as a vow to accept a divine mission.

"We should not be in the business of wrapping the state's mission in one particular religion," an active-duty Army captain serving as a non-Christian chaplain told The Intercept. But as Hegseth's Pentagon increasingly pushes Christianity, the chaplain, who was granted anonymity because he feared retaliation from the Defense Department, said he and other non-Christian chaplains worry the new religious affairs office will be used to do just that.

Hegseth's body bears an assortment of Christian and Crusader imagery, including a Jerusalem cross across his chest and the Latin phrase "Deus vult," or "God wills it," on his bicep — a battle cry associated with the medieval Crusades that has since been adopted by far-right extremists. His forearm bears a cross and sword referencing Matthew 10:34, in which Jesus declares that he came not to bring peace but a sword, alongside the Hebrew name for Jesus. In 2021, a fellow National Guard member flagged Hegseth as a potential security threat over his Deus vult tattoo, before Hegseth was removed from an assignment protecting Joe Biden's inauguration.

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As defense secretary, Hegseth has frequently turned to messaging that centers religion and vengeance while promoting the U.S. and Israel's unpopular war in Iran. His "Send Me" campaign is built around Isaiah 6:8, a biblical verse commonly invoked by Christians as a call to serve God. During his 9/11 speech last month at the Pentagon, Hegseth said the "struggle against evil" that followed the attacks continues today and "will continue until Judgment Day," before turning to the current war with Iran.

"Using specific scriptural language for a military campaign inappropriately frames state-sanctioned armed conflict and government service as a Christian religious crusade," the chaplain said. "Once a mission is declared God's will, every act inside it is sanctified in advance."

The new Office of Religious Affairs, the chaplain said, could entrench this dynamic. While the Pentagon memo establishing the office says it cannot compel religious participation or diminish the free-exercise rights of service members of any faith or no faith, the office's director will report directly to Hegseth and the deputy defense secretary, oversee the Armed Forces Chaplains Board, and work with the civilian religious organizations that endorse military chaplains. The office will also oversee efforts to assess spiritual fitness, spiritual readiness, and spiritual resilience across the force. This consolidated control, the chaplain warned, may make it difficult to maintain pluralism among the chaplain corps.

"Our chaplain corps must serve [non-Christian service members], not just the soldiers that share a faith with the SecDef," the Army chaplain said. While it's too early to know what that authority will mean for non-Christian chaplains, he wondered how it might change the ranks of the chaplaincy itself.

"Will this group begin accepting fewer and fewer non-Christian chaplains into our ranks?" he said. "Will we begin seeing fewer and fewer non-Christian chaplains be chosen for promotions?"

The concerns extend beyond the active-duty chaplain. Rev. Dr. Rebekah Savage, a former military chaplain who now helps oversee the Unitarian Universalist Association's endorsement of clergy serving as military chaplains, said the organization was not consulted before the office was established.

"I am deeply concerned about how this office will serve the religious needs of the members of the service," she said. "I can't speak for others who are a part of the chaplaincy corps, but I know I am not alone."

In response to questions about the new office from The Intercept, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson wrote in a statement that the department "protects the constitutional right of every service member and civilian employee to practice their faith without coercion or discrimination. This is why Secretary Hegseth recently established the Office of Religious Affairs." She said that prayer services and religious activities are always voluntary.

"The Christian faith is woven deeply into the fabric of our nation and shared by America's wartime leaders like President George Washington, who prayed for his troops at Valley Forge, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who gifted Bibles to America soldiers during WW2 and encouraged them to read it," Wilson added. "Despite the Left's efforts to remove our Christian heritage from our great nation, Secretary Hegseth is among those who embrace it."

In August, when "SEND ME" could still be dismissed as a string of social media posts, the Pentagon repeatedly declined to explain what the phrase meant or whether it represented a broader communications strategy.

As scholars of religion previously explained to The Intercept, the Pentagon's use of the passage strips away part of the biblical story. Isaiah is not being sent to destroy God's enemies; he is being sent to preach a warning to his own people. And the commission ends not in military triumph, but judgment. Cities are left empty, the land is devastated, and God's own people suffer the destruction.

"Secretary Hegseth's Send Me Tour is a military outreach and recruitment initiative focused on recognizing the Americans who volunteer to serve," Wilson added in her statement. "We are grateful for the Americans—past, present, and future-who have raised their right hand and said, 'Send Me.'"

Questions about the Pentagon's treatment of minority religious traditions predate the new office.

In June, Savage joined 10 other religious endorsers in a letter to Hegseth objecting to revisions to the military's Religious Affiliations Code list. The signatories said the changes removed or obscured the identities of several religious communities, including Unitarian Universalists, historically Black churches, and Wiccan and Pagan practitioners.

The endorsers warned that the changes could affect religious accommodations, access to clergy, and the distribution of chaplaincy resources.

"Classification is resource allocation," they wrote.

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Savage said the earlier changes, combined with the establishment of the Office of Religious Affairs, "calls the Department's commitment to meeting the spiritual needs of all of its members into question."

The active-duty Army chaplain questioned how the office's stated religious-freedom protections would work in practice under a defense secretary who has increasingly incorporated Christian scripture into his public messaging.

"What oversight will exist to prevent religious bias?" he said. "When investments are made, will they be defining spiritual fitness by Christian, or by more pluralistic metrics?"

The same concerns extend to money. The office's funding priorities include faith-based home school support for military families, faith-based suicide-reduction programs, and contracts with faith-based organizations.

"Will the Humanists, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and other groups receive an equal, commensurate amount of support and funding for such programs?" the Army chaplain said. "Or will all or most of the funding go to Christian based organizations?"

Beyond institutional support, the chaplain said the Pentagon's religious messaging could interfere with one of the central responsibilities of his profession: helping service members navigate questions of conscience, morality, and killing.

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In reporting for Task & Purpose last month, this reporter examined how Army chaplains were preparing to address the moral and spiritual consequences of artificial intelligence in warfare. As one scholar of military ethics pointed out, moral injury can arise when service members feel responsible for actions that violate their values, even when they have little meaningful control over those decisions.

The Army chaplain raised a related concern: What happens when the military itself invokes religious authority to justify its mission?

"What can I say to a non-Christian soldier who is being ordered to kill his fellow man or risk dying himself for a god he does not believe in?"

"If my role as a chaplain is to advise soldiers and commanders of issues of morality and ethics, what can I say to them now?" he said. "How can I advise a commander on doing moral and ethical actions if the state has announced that their god has ordained their war?"

For service members who do not share the religious beliefs invoked by military leadership, the Army chaplain said, that tension could be especially difficult to reconcile.

"What can I say to a non-Christian soldier who is being ordered to kill his fellow man or risk dying himself for a god he does not believe in?" he said. "What do I tell a soldier who believes an action is immoral, but also believes that God commanded it?"

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The UK Space Agency asked for names for its Active Debris Removal Mission, and, of course, the Register readership didn't disappoint.

The Active Debris Removal Mission, led by ClearSpace UK and intended to remove a pair of UK-registered satellites from Low Earth Orbit (thus demonstrating Blighty's prowess when it comes to orbital litter picking), needs a name.

Let's face it, Active Debris Removal Mission hardly rolls off the tongue and, while engineers have long found ways to make meaning from acronyms (this writer has always been rather fond of PICNIC - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer), the UK Space Agency decided it needed a proper name.

What could possibly go wrong? After all, it's not as if the great British public has form when it comes to picking interesting names (as the infamous Boaty McBoatface debacle demonstrated).

SpaceyMcSpaceFace and Binny McBinFace therefore took an early lead in voting (for our American readers, a bin is a word for a trash can).

Other suggestions included a reference to the long-running British game show, 3-2-1, with "Dusty Bin". Dusty Bin was the show's booby prize, and it's good to know that some people are at least as old as this writer.

Another, clearly inspired by our own PARIS and LOHAN, was SHART - Satellite Harvesting And Re-entry Tug, and there was the delightful Project TIDY (Targeted Intervention for Debris in the Yard), which sounds a little too much like it might win.

We at The Register tend to steer clear of politics if possible, but "Prime Binister" tickled our fancy. As did a tribute to the UK's most famous second-place candidate: Baron Binface.

For readers unaware, a candidate named Count Binface, presenting as an intergalactic space warrior with a dustbin for a head, stood in the Clacton by-election in 2026. The candidate came second after almost ten thousand voters decided they preferred a novelty candidate to the incumbent, Nigel Farage.

Farage won by a substantial margin. However, Binface (and McBinface) have secured the popular vote for a satellite clean-up mission. At least as far as Register readers are concerned.

We asked Count Binface for thoughts on the mission, and will update this piece should a response be forthcoming. ®

Due to reduced visibility affecting the medical helicopter's ability to fly, the MotoGP Grand Prix, in addition to the Moto2 and Moto3 races, have unfortunately been cancelled. 

Due to limited visibility affecting the operation of the medical helicopter at the Red Bull Grand Prix of Australia, the MotoGP Grand Prix race, in addition to the Moto2 and Moto3 races, has been cancelled.

As a farewell to Phillip Island, the MotoGP riders will do a parade lap behind the safety car and stop on the main straight to greet the fans. The pit lane will open for the farewell lap at 15:45 local time.

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We are all familiar with the fable of the boiling frog: heat the water slowly enough, and it sits peacefully until it is too late. It is a warning about how immediate feedback loops fail when danger creeps up incrementally.

In ecology, this short-term failure compounds into Shifting Baseline Syndrome. Each generation accepts the degraded state of the natural world they inherit as normal. We no longer hear the morning chorus our grandparents grew up with. We reset our expectations with every generation - not just failing to react as the crisis escalates, but forgetting how rich and vibrant our living systems used to be.

In political life, an even deeper dynamic is at play. Anthropologist Alexei Yurchak termed it 'hypernormalisation' when describing the final years of the USSR - a concept later brought to prominence by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It describes a system where politicians, civil servants and the public know the status quo is failing and the official narrative is fiction, yet everyone maintains the façade because confronting reality feels too radical for our institutions.

Over my five years as a councillor, and having chaired Norwich City Council's Climate and Ecological Emergency Executive Panel, I have seen first-hand how local government actually functions. I have worked alongside capable, knowledgeable council officers who do brilliant work within the system. But that insider view exposes a fundamental structural flaw: a bureaucratic cup game where cash-strapped councils compete against one another for tiny, short-term grants.

In this setup, even visionary long-term plans are squeezed into short-term political cycles. Officers and councillors alike are kept trapped plugging leaks in the present rather than preparing our communities for the future.

Yet I know the wealth of experience local authorities have. And I know far more detailed, national-level intelligence exists behind closed doors in Whitehall that local representatives are barred from seeing. Local government expertise would help frame the county's response if they were included in the conversation.

When central government launched its official Prepare campaign, advising households to stockpile three days' worth of food, water and emergency supplies, it was a rare crack in the façade. While Whitehall tells households to prepare, it refuses to equip local communities or municipal authorities with comparable information. The campaign covers a range of emergencies and does not in itself confirm what Whitehall believes about ecological catastrophe, but the contrast remains.

That is why I proposed Motion 14B - 'Transparency, Ecological Risk and Resilience Planning' - as the very first policy motion brought to Norwich City Council under our Green administration, co-sponsored by Leader Lucy Galvin. Our goal is to pioneer a democratic approach to governance, going directly into neighbourhoods to talk openly about climate adaptation and co-designing local resilience with residents. But genuine democracy requires honest information. That is why we formally requested access to the Joint Intelligence Committee's full assessment on ecological collapse.

Defra's official response - hiding behind the "neither confirm nor deny" formula historically associated with nuclear secrecy - fuels the suspicion that the state is withholding the full assessment because confronting its findings would demand a total shift in how we govern.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee also sought access to the full assessment, including on a confidential basis, but was refused. In a letter dated 17 June, its chair asked the minister either to provide the assessment or publicly explain why access was being denied.

This secrecy is dangerous. Climate risk specialists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based here in Norwich, have repeatedly shown that effective adaptation depends in part on effective risk communication and public trust. Suppressing ecological intelligence does not prevent panic; it creates an information vacuum where fear, rumour and conspiracy flourish.

Current political discourse fixates on border control and migration, treating human movement as an isolated political threat. But treating migration as the root problem ignores one of the major forces likely to shape human movement in coming decades: severe ecological breakdown.

The government's own publicly released nature security assessment makes this plain. Using intelligence frameworks, Defra warns that global ecosystem collapse poses a direct threat to UK national security. With the UK importing 40% of its food, domestic security relies on critical ecosystems thousands of miles away, where cascading environmental failure makes severe crop losses, water insecurity, and intense resource competition highly likely. Without major intervention, the state's own assessment warns that some critical ecosystems face a realistic possibility of beginning to collapse from 2030, with potentially severe consequences for food production.

By narrowing public discourse to border walls and administrative tweaks, Whitehall allows reactionary politics to weaponise symptoms while ignoring causes. Protecting the living world is not a soft preference or a matter of "being nice to nature"; ecological stability underpins our national food grid, public health, and basic economic survival.

Our current state strategy is fundamentally incoherent. Whitehall cuts international aid while boosting military expenditure, treating security as something delivered purely through defence contracts and border policing - all while the primary driver of global instability sits unaddressed. Pledges to plant trees or deliver minor carbon offsets fail to grasp the magnitude of the moment. We need a complete paradigm shift.

Civilisation only exists because of remarkably stable climate conditions over the last ten thousand years. Human survival has always hinged on our capacity to adapt - to face reality directly and organise ourselves accordingly.

When I wrote the motion, I knew Whitehall was unlikely to hand over classified intelligence. Demanding access was a deliberate act to expose institutional secrecy and start an honest discussion about our collective future.

At this year's Green Party conference, Adrian Ramsay MP proposed No National Security Without Nature Security. The motion formally asserts a fundamental truth: true national defence cannot be found in military posturing or state secrecy while the ecological foundations of our survival break down beneath us. Real security requires a state that trusts its own people with the truth, treating living systems as critical infrastructure, so that local council chambers and empowered citizens can proactively adapt to the world as it actually is.

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We are all familiar with the fable of the boiling frog: heat the water slowly enough, and it sits peacefully until it is too late. It is a warning about how immediate feedback loops fail when danger creeps up incrementally.

In ecology, this short-term failure compounds into Shifting Baseline Syndrome. Each generation accepts the degraded state of the natural world they inherit as normal. We no longer hear the morning chorus our grandparents grew up with. We reset our expectations with every generation - not just failing to react as the crisis escalates, but forgetting how rich and vibrant our living systems used to be.

In political life, an even deeper dynamic is at play. Anthropologist Alexei Yurchak termed it 'hypernormalisation' when describing the final years of the USSR - a concept later brought to prominence by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It describes a system where politicians, civil servants and the public know the status quo is failing and the official narrative is fiction, yet everyone maintains the façade because confronting reality feels too radical for our institutions.

Over my five years as a councillor, and having chaired Norwich City Council's Climate and Ecological Emergency Executive Panel, I have seen first-hand how local government actually functions. I have worked alongside capable, knowledgeable council officers who do brilliant work within the system. But that insider view exposes a fundamental structural flaw: a bureaucratic cup game where cash-strapped councils compete against one another for tiny, short-term grants.

In this setup, even visionary long-term plans are squeezed into short-term political cycles. Officers and councillors alike are kept trapped plugging leaks in the present rather than preparing our communities for the future.

Yet I know the wealth of experience local authorities have. And I know far more detailed, national-level intelligence exists behind closed doors in Whitehall that local representatives are barred from seeing. Local government expertise would help frame the county's response if they were included in the conversation.

When central government launched its official Prepare campaign, advising households to stockpile three days' worth of food, water and emergency supplies, it was a rare crack in the façade. While Whitehall tells households to prepare, it refuses to equip local communities or municipal authorities with comparable information. The campaign covers a range of emergencies and does not in itself confirm what Whitehall believes about ecological catastrophe, but the contrast remains.

That is why I proposed Motion 14B - 'Transparency, Ecological Risk and Resilience Planning' - as the very first policy motion brought to Norwich City Council under our Green administration, co-sponsored by Leader Lucy Galvin. Our goal is to pioneer a democratic approach to governance, going directly into neighbourhoods to talk openly about climate adaptation and co-designing local resilience with residents. But genuine democracy requires honest information. That is why we formally requested access to the Joint Intelligence Committee's full assessment on ecological collapse.

Defra's official response - hiding behind the "neither confirm nor deny" formula historically associated with nuclear secrecy - fuels the suspicion that the state is withholding the full assessment because confronting its findings would demand a total shift in how we govern.

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee also sought access to the full assessment, including on a confidential basis, but was refused. In a letter dated 17 June, its chair asked the minister either to provide the assessment or publicly explain why access was being denied.

This secrecy is dangerous. Climate risk specialists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based here in Norwich, have repeatedly shown that effective adaptation depends in part on effective risk communication and public trust. Suppressing ecological intelligence does not prevent panic; it creates an information vacuum where fear, rumour and conspiracy flourish.

Current political discourse fixates on border control and migration, treating human movement as an isolated political threat. But treating migration as the root problem ignores one of the major forces likely to shape human movement in coming decades: severe ecological breakdown.

The government's own publicly released nature security assessment makes this plain. Using intelligence frameworks, Defra warns that global ecosystem collapse poses a direct threat to UK national security. With the UK importing 40% of its food, domestic security relies on critical ecosystems thousands of miles away, where cascading environmental failure makes severe crop losses, water insecurity, and intense resource competition highly likely. Without major intervention, the state's own assessment warns that some critical ecosystems face a realistic possibility of beginning to collapse from 2030, with potentially severe consequences for food production.

By narrowing public discourse to border walls and administrative tweaks, Whitehall allows reactionary politics to weaponise symptoms while ignoring causes. Protecting the living world is not a soft preference or a matter of "being nice to nature"; ecological stability underpins our national food grid, public health, and basic economic survival.

Our current state strategy is fundamentally incoherent. Whitehall cuts international aid while boosting military expenditure, treating security as something delivered purely through defence contracts and border policing - all while the primary driver of global instability sits unaddressed. Pledges to plant trees or deliver minor carbon offsets fail to grasp the magnitude of the moment. We need a complete paradigm shift.

Civilisation only exists because of remarkably stable climate conditions over the last ten thousand years. Human survival has always hinged on our capacity to adapt - to face reality directly and organise ourselves accordingly.

When I wrote the motion, I knew Whitehall was unlikely to hand over classified intelligence. Demanding access was a deliberate act to expose institutional secrecy and start an honest discussion about our collective future.

At this year's Green Party conference, Adrian Ramsay MP proposed No National Security Without Nature Security. The motion formally asserts a fundamental truth: true national defence cannot be found in military posturing or state secrecy while the ecological foundations of our survival break down beneath us. Real security requires a state that trusts its own people with the truth, treating living systems as critical infrastructure, so that local council chambers and empowered citizens can proactively adapt to the world as it actually is.

Nominate an organisation that needs scrutiny

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Your feelings are understandable. Exploring and accepting them may help you move on

I was with my ex-partner for more than 20 years. We were mostly happy and I expected us to be together for life. For well over half the relationship, I was the sole breadwinner and, at my ex's request, managed our finances. We were reasonably well off, with savings and without a mortgage. We even had a holiday home, albeit a static caravan.

I retired early, and the problems we had in our relationship grew. We had both loved travel, but I was repeatedly told we couldn't afford it, which I knew was nonsense. I went back to work in a demanding new field, but my ex showed no interest. I spent more time away from home and began therapy (my suggestion of couples' therapy was rejected). After a year of therapy, I said I was leaving.

In October 2020, I published the first OUT TODAY column. Even then, I couldn't keep up with all the new music, so in addition to my shorter SOUND BYTES write-ups, I started curating a collection of about a dozen albums and shared it with you about once a month. As everyone's attention span got shortened, fought for by algorithms, content scraped by bots, and fabricated with AI…

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After several delays in the hope that the visibility issues would eventually clear and the medical helicopter could be operated, a decision was eventually made that the races in all three classes are cancelled. Racing could not safely get underway without the medical helicopter being able to fly, as the closest hospital by road is over 45 minutes away from the circuit. 

As a farewell to Phillip Island, MotoGP riders completed a parade lap behind the safety car and greeted the very patient fans on the main straight, with Jack Miller as the star of the brief show.

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To use these documents effectively, I suggest you filter out operational military doctrine and take what is most applicable to your needs. For those in a colder climate, the Canadian guides provide useful advice. I think each are good to print, fully read, bookmark with tabs, and store on a shelf.

Beware: storing as a PDF could be next to useless in an emergency situation, if the lights go out. Printing is key. Also consider storing your collection of vital knowledge resources in a waterproof box.

I'd suggest experimenting with many of the techniques found in these guides before you actually need to use them. Get your reps in now so you're not figuring it out under the pressure of an emergency.

The seven guides below are just a sample of what's available, but they cover the fundamentals. There are many other survival books worth obtaining, but most must be purchased. I suggest books on canning techniques, home repair, and food growing for example.

Finally, military-style survival guides are purpose built. They are typically written for the stranded soldier who is surviving until rescue. The knowledge from these military guides is indispensable, but for more of a homesteading approach the last publication, Survival Illustrated, is a must-have.

Here are the guides:

US Army FM 3-05.70 Survival Manual: This 600-plus page publication covers shelter construction, water procurement, primitive fire building, food foraging, poisonous plants, field-expedient weapons, and distinct biome operations across desert, arctic, and tropical environments.

US Marine Corps MCRP 3-02H Survival, Evasion, and Recovery: A quick-reference field handbook for navigation, evasion movement, thermal protection, signaling, and tactical camouflage.

US Air Force AFH 10-644 SERE Manual: Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) curriculum. It details physical survival physiology, psychological stressors, specialized signaling gear, and equipment improvisation.

US Military FM 4-25.11 First Aid Manual: A joint Army, Navy, and Air Force manual detailing tactical field care. It outlines emergency treatment for severe hemorrhages, open chest wounds, shock, fractures, splinting, environmental injuries (hypothermia and heat stroke), and field sanitation.

Canadian Armed Forces B-GL-382-006/FP-001 Survival Manual: Technical instruction for survival across temperate, tropical, and subarctic biomes, emphasizing shelter construction, improvised navigation, firecraft, and wild food harvesting.

Canadian Forces Down But Not Out Survival Manual: Canadian Forces wilderness survival handbook developed for aircrews operating in remote northern regions, it details extreme cold-weather survival, snow trench and quinzhee construction, signaling, and wild edible flora.

Survival Illustrated: Written by Jessica Wildfire, this survival publication provides comprehensive and practical survival guidance for homesteaders and average citizens. Everyone can benefit from this publication that Jessica so generously created.

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The temperature is plunging and I can feel the velvet darkness falling upon London. As dusk gathers in the ancient churches and the dusty old museums in the late afternoon, the distinction between past and present becomes almost permeable at this time of year. Then, once the daylight fades and the streetlights flicker into life, I feel the desire to go walking out in search of the dark nights of old London.

Examining hundreds of glass plates - many more than a century old - once used by the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society for magic lantern shows at the Bishopsgate Institute, I am in thrall to these images of night long ago in London. They set my imagination racing with nocturnal visions of the gloom and the glamour of our city in darkness, where mist hangs in the air eternally, casting an aura round each lamp, where the full moon is always breaking through the clouds and where the recent downpour glistens upon every pavement - where old London has become an apparition that coalesced out of the fog.

Somewhere out there, they are loading the mail onto trains, and the presses are rolling in Fleet St, and the lorries are setting out with the early editions, and the barrows are rolling into Spitalfields and Covent Garden, and the Billingsgate porters are running helter-skelter down St Mary at Hill with crates of fish on their heads, and the horns are blaring along the river as Tower Bridge opens in the moonlight to admit another cargo vessel into the crowded pool of London. Meanwhile, across the empty city, Londoners slumber and dream while footsteps of lonely policemen on the beat echo in the dark deserted streets.

Glass slides courtesy Bishopsgate Institute

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Action at Phillip Island has been delayed due to weather conditions. Because of heavy rain, the medical helicopter cannot take off, making it unsafe.

Conditions are expected to improve around 11am local time, at which point a new assessment will be made. Warm up will be the first session under the current plan. But all depends on how conditions develop.

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J. Wellington Wimpy, of Popeye comics fame, had a favorite expression. It went like this: "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheeseburger today." As the Earth gets hotter and hotter, most countries have made commitments to reduce their climate warming emissions by 2030, or 2050, or 2077, or ... [continued]

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There are three lessons that we can learn from the last ever sprint race for the MotoGP class at Phillip Island. That keeping your head is the decisive factor when it comes to championship fights. That some riders bounce better than others, making mistakes much more costly. And that Phillip Island truly is a magical motorcycle racing circuit.

To start with the latter, and arguably the most important point. The sprint race at Phillip Island was a timely reminder of just why so many fans love the circuit so deeply. At the front, a tight battle with multiple overtakes. Different riders on different bikes all being able to battle on equal footing. Riders qualifying in ninth and nearly making it onto the podium. Fast, scintillating action, and a spectacle to die for. Motorcycle racing is above all emotion, and the Phillip Island sprint race was pure emotion, exhilaration, excitement, passion.

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Tesla just passed Waymo in Austin in weekly driverless miles. If its recent 20% weekly growth holds, it passes Waymo nationally in roughly 11 weeks and is doing the volume of Uber + Lyft across three Texas metros by mid-February. The accumulating unsupervised miles are already large enough to start ... [continued]

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An 'audit' of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains 'widespread errors'. It doesn't stack up

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Australia's climate has warmed by more than 1.5C since 1910, according to the Bureau of Meteorology's main long-term temperature data.

If you were so motivated, you might think if you could discredit this data, then you would undermine the whole climate change story and even - perhaps - the rationale for cutting Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

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