Gordon, working to slander the world’s leading coronavirus experts, including Shi Zhengli and Peter Daszak, during a global pandemic that has killed up to 20 million people. Most recently, he has joined the band of rogues and scoundrels, including the racist Nicholas Wade and “aluminum tubes” liar Michael R. Perhaps with similar sentiments, the Viscount returned to public life, elected by his aristocratic peers to the House of Lords in 2013, and has rebooted his career as a “science writer” to deny the existence of climate change, argue the genetic basis of race, and promote ideas associated with Social Darwinism. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o’ Wednesday. “What is honour?” asked Shakespeare’s corrupt and cowardly knight, Sir Falstaff. Thenceforward, it was assumed that Ridley would be seen not only as a crook and an incompetent, but a liar whom no one would take seriously on anything, much less the ethical conduct of others.īut since his misadventure in banking, which cost British taxpayers 37 billion pounds and led to tens of thousands of foreclosures, the 5th Viscount Ridley was not content to retreat to his estate, home to the largest open-pit mine in Britain. They demonstrated that he had openly and flagrantly lied to Parliament, writing in a letter, “we have no subprime loans,” while running advertisements reading “open for sub-prime business.” Matt Ridley testifies before the House of Commons Treasury Committee in 2007
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |