In this week’s Takimag, the dubious doctor denounces the devastating and absurd radical green policies of the new British government while also admonishing the Swedes for slowly turning parts of their country into Third-World refugee camps and other parts into chaotic ganglands.

To use farmland in a very overcrowded country to erect thousands of unsightly windmills bespeaks a kind of Marxist hatred of the countryside, and of the rural idiocy to which Marx referred. Unsightliness is of no concern to environmentalists, who perceive notional emissions of carbon dioxide more vividly than what they see with their eyes.