ASFO 2025–12–20

When the 30th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convenion on Climate Change spends virtually all its efforts on “Adaptation Finance”, you might be forgiven for thinking that plans for adaptation were already delineated and merely required financing ; and that, over the course of 30 years, plans for emissions reduction have been made and financed, and are well underway. Given that the Euratom Treaty is one of the three foundation documents of the European Union, you might be forgiven for expecting the European Commission to treat its obligation to produce, from time to time, an Illustrative Nuclear Program with utmost gravity and care. And yet…

ASFO 2025–10–25

Light Railway Orders were never meant as a way to extend your 381 mm gage live–steam garden railway 22 km to provide access to a nuclear power station, but here we are. Or, a day out on the Romney, Dymchurch, and Hythe. (More photos here — the best ones are free.)

ASFO 2025–10–18

The future should look like the future — all right, but what kind of future? Billions for defense, billions more for infrastructure, but to what avail? Also, novel forms of morality with nothing to recommend them, served piping fresh.

Supplementary Show

2025–10–24 Starting late and frequently interrupted, a ramble around London Saint Pancras and King’s Cross railway stations in search of a Folkestone bus pass. I swear it makes some kind of sense in context!