Britain must resist Tea Party thinking  As unreason triumphs in
the US, a similar paranoia and refusal to accept scientific fact
threaten to invade British politics     • The Guardian,     •
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that the science of climate change 'is nowhere near as
conclusive as it is presented'. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the
Guardian  Tea Party madness has brought the US to the brink of
economic mayhem, risking taking much of the world with it. In
the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-
reasonableness was forced to surrender. The economic credibility
of the country that holds the global reserve currency has
wobbled. The political credibility of the world's beacon of
democracy has failed in the face of an insurgency of unreason.
Facts, evidence, probability, possibility – none of that matters
to a movement founded on ferocious fantasy.  The founding
fathers built a constitution of checks and balances believing
reasonable men would agree; how could th