The general consensus appears to be that this month’s COP29 climate-summit held over in Baku, Azerbaijan, was something of a damp squib right from the get-go. But why? Some point to the recent re-election of the pleasingly climate-sceptical Donald “drill, baby, drill!” Trump over in America. Some observe that perhaps it may have been sending out mixed signals holding the summit in a place whose entire economy is based upon hydrocarbons, which have been acclaimed as “a gift from God” by the nation’s President, and where gas and oil seep out of the ground so profusely that in certain areas the soil is quite literally on fire.
And, of course, yet others make another, far more plausible explanation for COP29 falling flat: there just weren’t enough queers there to make a difference.
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Cracking final sentence…….
My gut feeling is that with the increasing muslimification of this country we’ll all have to be a little less queer.
I did wonder why Elton John has never been head of OPEC. I had assumed he had asked too large a fee.
If he wants to visit a country in the middle east where he’d have no problem being gay, he could try Israel… then again……..
Good, let them de-elevate the pointless COP trough sessions to the level of farce.
The left will eat itself.
Not sure about this proposition. For one thing almost every man I speak to these days says he is bisexual and sometimes assigns himself a more exotic identity. Or they say ‘I think all us men are on a spectrum in terms of our sexuality’. And I don’t mean confused teenagers I am talking about burly middle-aged men. And so it is hard to conceive of a more queer culture and population. You hear women saying the same sort of thing as well.
To the Liberal Progressive, climate change is the gift that just keeps on giving. It allows them to put every policy they have ever wanted in place and sit in their little castles on top of the moral high ground at the same time. —–ie Look we all need to be good communists, as well as diverse and inclusive to save the planet
Tucker is a clever chap but not as clever as he thinks. If he were, he’d write more briefly and less self-indulgently. As it is, I,think he hardly ever repays the attention he demands. He says Chad dribbles. No doubt he does but Tucker dribbles himself. And is too fond of twenty-first century clichés like ‘the get-go’ and ‘obviously’. Toby Young should discipline him.
Agreed. Less is more. I put it down to time, not ability but maybe both. Definitely needs some editorial input.