doomster

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doomster

a judge.

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In often-repeated rhetoric, environmental prophets were dubbed Chicken-Littles (featherheaded neurotically fearful alarmists who, alas, swept others up into their hysteria) and doomsters (willful and programmatic pessimists, spoilers of everybody's joys).

Global warming as literary narrative

Likewise, would a doomster with a leaking roof welcome additions to his to-do list of chores because more chores mean "more jobs"?

Doomsters, Evil I's, and tunnel-vision economics

Far from an organ of doomster culture, it is a model of discretion and scientific balance.

The True State of the Planet

Such doomsters not only fail to appreciate the huge environmental gains made over the past 30 years, they ignore the simple fact that increased wealth, population, and technological innovation don't degrade and destroy the environment.

EARTH DAY THEN AND NOW

Maybe, the doomsters warn, they will never go back.

Doing up the British parliament is expensive, but its tradition is priceless

The Welsh economy needs more indigenous businesses to succeed, so don't be put off by the doomsters - even the largest multinational group was a small start-up at one time

Help is at hand for firms with the will to succeed

Were it not for Brexit giving financial markets the heebie-jeebies, this would have to have been one of the shortest bear markets in living memory -- unless, of course, you take note of doomsters like that blithering idiot of a so-called financial expert who writes, inter-alia no doubt, for the Motley Fool .

Brexit and your savings: an expat's view

And let's be clear to the nay-sayers and doomsters - a combined authority emphatically does not represent another tier of bureaucracy; rather, it From Page 15 should deliver the sensible co-operation and agreed working across specific areas - public transport, rail franchising, highway priorities, strategic planning, economic development, marketing and broader housing issues - that characterises successful metro-regions in mainland Europe and the USA.

What have we learned in 10 years? What would have happened if the region had voted yes to a regional assembly when given the chance 10 years ago, and what can we still do to give the North East a more powerful voice? PETER HETHERINGTON explores the issues

Christmas is the season when we regularly practice good will to all men [and women]; sorry for these doomsters, Christmas in September will never catch on in Bahrain.

Based on a fable

The nineteenth century was acutely conscious of the ambiguous situation of individual lives and egos--from Wordsworth's Prelude to Swinburne's fellow Pre-Raphaelite George Meredith to Hardy's Wessex folk and their purblind Doomsters.

The irony of Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon

Contrary to what doomsters like George Galloway say, Scotland is a tolerant nation - it's just as well.