Wilby on hope for papers - and hopeless Utley

Peter Wilby in the New Statesman thinks that the resurrection of vinyl by the music industry should give the newspaper industry hope for its future. "Contrary to the jeremiads,", he writes, "I believe that paid-for print has a future, but only if it is nurtured very carefully." His secondary piece is devoted to Tom Utley, the Daily Mail columnist who denies evidence of global warming. Wilby refers to Utley's claim about ice cubes in his gin and tonic not causing his glass to overflow "proving" that melting ice at the poles isn't a threat. Last night I saw Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth which, by chance, uses the ice cube illustration to prove the opposite. No wonder Wilby's squib is entitled "Uncle Tom cobblers". (Via New Statesman)