James May

Aug 31, 2024 | thetimes.com | Jeremy Clarkson |James May

The story, if you’re in a bit of a hurry, is as follows. In 1986 I sat next to a Top Gear producer at the launch of the Citroën AX. He offered me a job and two years later I started to appear on screen. I did that for a while, got ideas above my station, left, and made some mostly forgettable programmes before dreaming up a new format for Top Gear.

May 3, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Katrina Fischer Kuh |James May

By Katrina Fischer Kuh and James R. MayEven a healthy U.S. democracy would struggle to respond effectively to the “wicked” problem of climate change. As humans, we would have to overcome innate cognitive limitations to accept the connection between everyday actions like driving and attenuated effects on climate. As voters, we would have to appreciate the importance of addressing a problem with limited immediate salience primarily for the benefit of future generations.

May 1, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Katrina Fischer Kuh |James May |Phil Pasquini |Sagar Dhara

by Katrina Fischer Kuh and James R. MayEven a healthy U.S. democracy would struggle to respond effectively to the “wicked” problem of climate change. As humans, we would have to overcome innate cognitive limitations to accept the connection between everyday actions like driving and attenuated effects on climate. As voters, we would have to appreciate the importance of addressing a problem with limited immediate salience primarily for the benefit of future generations.

Dec 29, 2023 | imagejournal.org | James May

And now the habanero plantproduces so muchthat it looks like a Christmas treedecorated with tiny pumpkin ornaments. It doesn’t seem to mindmy forgetting to water it—in fact,both my neglect and the droughtseem good for it and only it. The basil curls and browns to the shadeof burning paper, the tomatostays fruitless, while the real pumpkinsdroop their leaves like broken umbrellas.