Jun 3rd, 2009
Tonight is pre-election night. Tomorrow, county and Euro elections.
Which means not one person who has been implicated in MP expenses is standing. To be sure, MEPs have been questioned about their expenses in the past, most notably UKIP, whose value to the taxpayer in terms of cost for work done is lamentable.
Westminster must be reformed, [...]
May 5th, 2007
BBC NEWS | Education | Law challenge to Gore school film
A father from Kent is challenging in the courts a DfES decision to send copies of Al Gore’s Oscar winning film on Climate Change to every secondary school in England. ‘An inconvenient truth’ is, by its nature, a political film, but DfES points to a [...]
Apr 6th, 2007
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Warming ‘already changing world’
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, due to be published today, will make the case that of 29,000 pieces of data on observed changes in physical and biological aspects of the natural world, 85% are consistent with a warming world.
I met some Americans recently [...]