March 19, 2010
Weather, not climate, hurts wildlife
BBC News - Fears harsh winter harmed UK wildlife
The harsh winter may have had a devastating impact on Britain's wildlife, it has been warned.
BBC News - Harsh Scottish winter leaves starving deer
Thousands of deer are thought to be at risk of starvation in Scotland following this year's harsh winter.
In Sutherland, there are fears that an entire generation will be lost due to the winter weather.
BBC News - 'Wildlife in crisis' in frozen UK
Britain's wildlife is being pushed to "the brink of a crisis" as sub-zero temperatures continue to grip the nation, according to conservationists.
No prize for guessing what two words beginning with C aren't used in these reports.
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Filthy Libertarian Profits
Condoms: Lie back and think of England - Times Online
Britain donates more than a thousand condoms a minute to the developing world. It’s an unsung success story that should make our nation proud
the buzzword in condoms is “social marketing”, creating sexy looking brands for people to buy, which disguise the fact they are heavily subsidised by aid money. The biggest social marketer of condoms is Population Services International (PSI), an organisation with fascinating roots. It was set up in the 1970s by the American philanthropist Phil Harvey, who created a US pornography business to fund contraceptives for the Third World. As one of his employees put it, Harvey “steals from the horny to give to the poor”. (Harvey is no longer connected to PSI).
Phil Harvey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phil Harvey is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and libertarian who over the past 30 years has set up large-scale programs that deliver subsidized contraceptives in poor countries. Harvey is the president of DKT International, the Washington, D.C.-based charity that implements family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention programs in 15 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is also the chief sponsor of the Liberty Project which raises awareness about freedom of speech issues in the U.S. Harvey is also the president of Adam & Eve, the North Carolina–based company that sells sex toys, pornographic films and condoms.
Over these years, Harvey has used profits from Adam & Eve to supplement support from international donors to protect millions of poor couples from unwanted pregnancies and HIV infections. During 2008 DKT International provided 17 million couple years of protection (CYPs).
Seems like helping the poor overseas isn't just the reserve of the uptight socialists using taxpayer money...
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Pushbike Prats
Bloody tax-dodgers! (And there’s millions of ‘em) – I Pay Road Tax
Some motorists feel they own the road because “they pay for it”. Some hate on cyclists for being ‘tax-dodgers’ even though roads are paid for by general taxation not road tax, which was finally abolished in 1936, a process started by Winston Churchill in 1926. [It's car tax, not road tax - the clue is in the real name, Vehicle Excise Duty].
It's not a car tax, I can keep and drive whatever large engined monster i like on private property and roar around the estate as fast as i like belching out as much CO2 as I like without paying a penny. It is a tax to have a car on the road. Nice smooth shiny back stuff that makes it possible for you lycra wrapped numpties to pointlessly pedal in circles. Shut up and don't try and be the pedantic smart arse.
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Labour's Money Laundering
Union behind BA strike receives £18m from taxpayers in ‘money-laundering’ deal with Labour
Francis Maude, the Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, said: “This really looks like money laundering - taxpayers' money is being funnelled into Unite then put straight back into Labour's coffers.
“It's a real racket, with taxpayers' money being round-tripped into Gordon Brown's re-election fund. We must have much greater transparency on what unions are receiving from the Labour Government in return for their backhanders.”
Strong words, will the media pick up on it or continue to gasp over Ashcroft?
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March 18, 2010
Web Content Management Fail
WEB CONTENT MANAGER
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Closing date for applications is 3rd October 2008
As the latest news on the Dauntsey's School site is also September 2008 I guess they didn't recruit anyone, who could put a redirect on to their newer site which Google doesn't really know about.
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Polar Populations Vary - Scary
Arctic birds and fish on the increase — as polar bears suffer decline - Times Online
The number of animals in the Arctic has increased during the past 40 years but those who live closest to the North Pole, such as polar bears, are disappearing, according to a new international study.
The report by the UN and other groups released in Miami yesterday concludes that birds, mammals and fish have increased by about 16 per cent since 1970, due mostly to the impact of hunting restrictions.
The biggest improvement was in the lower regions of the Arctic where the number of animals, especially those that live in the water, are up about 46 per cent. However, scientists are not celebrating the increase. Species in what is called the High Arctic dropped by a quarter between 1970 and 2004 and North American caribou are down by about one-third.
“What we’re seeing is that there’s winners and losers with rapid changes in the Arctic,” Louise McRae, another study co-author and conservation biologist at the Zoological Society of London, said that the drop in the High Arctic was troubling. That is because global warming occurs fastest in the region and is projected to worsen, so the pressure on species will only increase, she said.
There is not enough evidence to blame global warming for the loss of species but what is happening is “in line with what would be predicted with climate change,”
Go and read the report - and note for instance they only give figures for one small population of Polar Bears from western Hudson Bay. Brown Bears have suffered a much larger drop , and I thought they liked it warmer. Well the one on the floor in front of my fire does...
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Troughers Licensed To Walk in Westminster
Video: Micro pig turns heads in London - Telegraph
Pig breeder, Jane Croft takes her three-month-old micro pig, Manuka on a sight-seeing trip around London.
I hope she applied for and was granted a Pet Pig Walking Licence.
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Mephedrone - The Fact
Q&A: Banning mephedrone - Times Online
Stupid people are taking this crap because the safer better alternatives are illegal.
And your solution to that is what?
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March 17, 2010
Best Drive in Wiltshire?
I can't think of many better drives than the one I did today, anywhere in the world. Enjoy looking round with Google StreetView. (It is a shame they haven't got the pedestrian view from the terrace in Shaftesbury or from the Pub's balcony.)
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Catlin On Acid
Catlin Arctic team brave thin ice and polar bears to monitor acid oceans | guardian.co.uk
Polar ice melting, global warming that is all SO last year, it is all Ocean Acidification this year. Get with it, the sceptics can't argue with CAOA....
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Filthy TV Rubbish Before The Watershed!
Disgusting!Seen in Wilton today
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Record Rainfall in the UK
BBC News - It's still real and it's still a problem
The evidence of change is indeed there.
The glaciers of the Alps and the Himalayas are retreating. Weather patterns around the world are becoming more erratic and more extreme.
The most intensive rainfall ever experienced in one location over a 24-hour period in England fell on Cumbria last November, and caused the tragic consequences of the severe flooding that we saw in Cockermouth, Keswick and Workington.
We cannot say for certain that these things - or indeed the intense heat recently experienced in Australia, or the droughts in Kenya - were caused by climate change.
But we can see with our own eyes that climatic, weather and temperature trends are changing, and we know that these hitherto exceptional events are likely to become more frequent over coming years.
So what does the record rainfall series in the UK look like?
Source : Record-breaking rainfall - the list of highest daily rainfall in the UK
Is that a trend or a random walk? Of course with records only higher ones are recorded as time goes on and much statistical analysis has been done on such things. Stuff like using Markov Chains to estimate the probability of rare events, I wouldn't dare try and expand on the theory and show up my ignorance, but others can.
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Scottish Salmon Slicers Claim Subsidies
'Energy bonanza' to power 750,000 homes - Scotsman.com News
SCOTLAND has taken a world-leading role in the emerging multi-billion-pound marine energy industry by approving ten projects with the potential to power almost a third of the country's homes.
First Minister Alex Salmond said Scotland could "rule the waves", as he unveiled the seven winners of a fierce two-year competition for leases that attracted applications from 20 companies worldwide. It is estimated the projects could create as many as 5,000 jobs in Scotland.
Today, the UK government will unveil its latest energy strategy, which includes more funding to drive forward the low-carbon industry.
However, there were warnings that huge challenges remain before the marine energy sector, which is relatively unproven, can take off. And taxpayers will have to fork out an estimated £1bn to create new infrastructure, such as an upgraded electricity grid and overhauled ports.
The investment needed for the ten projects would be, at about £4bn, similar to the cost of a new nuclear reactor. This will have to be funded entirely by the companies that won the ten leases, which also include Scottish and Southern Energy and E.on, bringing a likely cost to the consumer.
Prof Salter called for more financial support from government and added: "All they have done is say, 'Right, you can use your allotment, here's your licence'. They are not giving them the money for it. We are not doing enough at the moment.
"The guys who are doing this are desperately short of money."
Tidal power seems to be more sensible than wind but they are all only very happy because Scottish jobs are being created on the UK's taxpayers dollar, and that is seen as a success. Jobs Is Costs not a benefit.
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The Future is Girly Men
Masculine faces appeal most to women in countries where disease is rife | guardian.co.uk
Women who live in healthier countries prefer more feminine-looking men, compared with women living in regions where life-threatening diseases are rife, psychologists say. Their research suggests masculine men have the greatest appeal for women who live in areas where a strong genetic make-up is critical for survival.
Women in Mexico, one of the least healthy countries in the study, preferred masculinised faces 54% of the time, compared with only 32% of the time for women in Sweden, which is one of the healthiest countries in the world. In Britain, women preferred the more masculine faces 43% of the time.
So where genetic fitness is less important it is less important, and it is only going to get less so. Sometimes I'm glad I'm out of the running.
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March 16, 2010
I have a little list...from the TaxPayers Alliance
The public sector trade union UNISON recently launched an online video which claimed that cutting public spending meant leaving people without 999 operators, bin men or nurses.
In response, we now present an edited version of their film, which demonstrates the wide range of absurd non-jobs throughout the public sector which could be abolished without any impact at all on front line services.
All of these jobs are real posts in various branches of the public sector.
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IPCC - Wrong and Too Conservative - RealClimate
IPCC under fire in blogosphere for 'sealevelgate' | guardian.co.uk
From RealClimate, part of the Guardian Environment Network
In its latest report, the IPCC has predicted up to 59 cm of sea level rise by the end of this century. But realclimate soon revealed a few problems....IPCC would never have published an implausibly high 3 meter upper limit like this, but it did not hesitate with the implausibly low 59 cm. That is because within the IPCC culture, being "alarmist" is bad and being "conservative" (i.e. underestimating the potential severity of things) is good.
Why do I find this IPCC problem far worse than the Himalaya error? Because it is not a slip-up by a Working Group 2 author who failed to properly follow procedures and cited an unreliable source. Rather, this is the result of intensive deliberations by Working Group 1 climate experts. Unlike the Himalaya mistake, this is one of the central predictions of IPCC, prominently discussed in the Summary for Policy Makers. What went wrong in this case needs to be carefully looked at when considering future improvements to the IPCC process.
And let's see whether we learn another lesson here, this time about society and the media. Will this evidence for an underestimation of the climate problem by IPCC, presented by an IPCC lead author who studies sea level, be just as widely reported and discussed as, say, faulty claims by a blogger about "Amazongate"?
Ummm - The RealClimate story is three years old and didn't get any traction then. And this resurrection attempt smacks of desperation.
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Keep Turkey Mating Local
Turkey bans trips abroad for artificial insemination - Telegraph
Turkey Information Sheet
They are unable to mate naturally so artificial insemination (AI) is routine. This procedure involves the male breeding turkeys being repeatedly ‘milked’ for semen collection, whilst females (hens) have to endure the process of being caught and inseminated by tube/syringe. AI completely frustrates the natural mating instincts of turkeys and is distressing for both stags and hens.
Especially I guess if they have been whisked abroad on the promise of a romantic break; keep them in Norfolk and they won't know any different.
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I'll take Tea please
America wakes up to the Coffee Party | Joseph Huff-Hannon | guardian.co.uk
A group of liberal-leaning New Yorkers meeting at a place called Le Monde Café to discuss the politics of the day.....group adherence to a "civility pledge" (" … I value people from different cultures, I value people with different ideas, and I value and cherish the democratic process"), the inaugural National Coffee Party Day was called to order. Wayne Jacques, one of the facilitators of the meeting, told me. "We wanted to make sure this thing doesn't dissolve in to a shouting match. .. frustration that the shrill voices of a newly energised grassroots right (ie the so-called Tea Party) are getting all the attention.
Anyone called Wayne who is a "Facilitator" isn't some one I'm going to enjoy a drink with.
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Shopping Channel
My Firearm Certificate is up for renewal and so I have been browsing for what additions I should ask for. I feel a need for a P14...
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March 15, 2010
Country is going to the Poodles
Police back Hampshire village’s patrols against antisocial behaviour - Times Online
When Marilyn Hebbron bought her house by the green in a Hampshire village she had not planned to become a crime-fighting pioneer.
It was only after she was kept awake night after night by youths who congregated on the green, and woke up morning after morning to find the green littered with bottles, drug paraphernalia and occasional comatose teenagers, that she decided to act.
She rallied her middle-class neighbours in the village of Four Marks and organised street patrols...She said: “Parties were being held until 4am on the green with lots of noise and inappropriate sexual behaviour. Come daylight teenagers would still be lying about on the roads.
Bloody incomers ruining the traditional rural way of life with their la-di-da oh so bloody nice, just a glass of Pinot Grigio, lace curtain twitching, pursed mouth tutting views of life. What are the local kids meant to do now if they can't party with lots of noise and "inappropriate sexual behaviour" on the village green?
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Paying for the fantasy
Energy bills to go up with tough EU clampdown on greenhouse gas emissions - Times Online
Energy bills will rise but thousands of jobs could be created in green industries under a European plan to impose the world’s most stringent restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.
The Government will today support a proposal tabled in Brussels for a new, much more onerous EU target for cutting carbon dioxide...The EU has already gone farther than the rest of the world by making a legally binding commitment to cut emissions by 20 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020. It is now preparing to raise the target to 30 per cent despite the failure of December’s climate change summit in Copenhagen.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has calculated the cost to Britain of its contribution to the 30 per cent target but is refusing to publish the research.
A DECC spokeswoman said: “It is the UK’s view that, given the right conditions, the EU should move to 30 per cent.”
She said that the DECC had rejected a request under the Freedom of Information Act for details of the cost of moving to the 30 per cent target “because we feel it would weaken the UK negotiating position in climate negotiations”.
The EU at Work, The Planned Destruction of Our Industry, The Belief in Subsidised Jobs, CO2 Reduction Targets, Official Secrecy and The Cavalier Attitude to Our Money - where to start?
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March 14, 2010
Sir John Houghton - We Aren't Alarmist Enough
We climate scientists are not ecofanatics
If the IPCC has a fault, it is that its reports have been too cautious, not alarmist
John Houghton
The IPCC is not a self-selected group of scientists with a political agenda.... The IPCC is too big an organisation to be captured by an ideological cabal or fall foul of group-think... I was chairman or co-chairman of the Science Working Group from 1988–2002, through the first three IPCC reports.... We had no preconceived agenda regarding our conclusions.
The IPCC process also makes it impossible for green propaganda to be slipped in... a report from Greenpeace or any other campaigning body would not be included because the science would not be considered robust enough.
A further myth is that the IPCC is alarmist. In truth, it’s far easier to find what now looks like excessive caution in IPCC reports.
Perhaps there is a criticism that can be made of IPCC scientists: they have been too slow publicly to defend their integrity. They have not been willing or able to hit the airwaves or make their case in newspapers. But scientists are now faced by powerful lobbies who are working to distort and discredit the science behind climate change. We scientists have facts on our sides — we must not be afraid to deploy them.
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Timmy Too Late Elsewhere
Adonis strategy on drink-driving is the absolute limit | Tim Worstall - Times Online
The basic deal in Britain between rulers and ruled is that we’ll obey the laws as long as they don’t make any obviously stupid ones...we aren’t scofflaws because we tend not to have laws at which we scoff. .
Too late, Timmy, too late. The law is openly scoffed because of overlegislation, and we are all poorer for that.
4,300: How Labour has created a new crime every day since 1997 - Times Online
4,300 offences created by the Labour government since 1997 — an avalanche of legislation. It equates to an average of 28 offences every month since Labour came to power and it is getting worse. Under Gordon Brown the creation of offences has risen to 33 a month.
For the period since the war to around the 1980s you saw one major criminal justice bill each decade, but since 1997 we’ve seen more than 50.
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Beware the Ides of March
File under classical education.
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March 13, 2010
Act on C02 Bedtime Story OK Because IPCC Says So
Read the ASA adjudication on climate change adverts | guardian.co.uk
As the little girl says...
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England - Scotland Warm-up Videos
And the Scotch have forgotten their grievance over this, not...
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Enquiring into our libel laws
Want to see for yourself how English libel law stops you accessing
websites? Go to the National Enquirer website http://www.nationalenquirer.com They've blocked access to anyone in the UK because they fear a libel action in London.
( anonymizer.nntime.com allows me to pretend I'm in the States. )
Libel Reform Campaign - Free Speech Is Not For Sale has more.
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March 12, 2010
ManBearPig to Eat All the Polar Bears
US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear | Environment | guardian.co.uk
"Sea ice changes will likely negatively impact polar bears by increasing energetic demands of seeking prey. As changes in habitat become more severe and seasonal rates of change more rapid, catastrophic mortality events that have yet to be realised on a large scale are expected to occur."
It adds: "A precautionary approach, which includes polar bears in Cites appendix I, is necessary to ensure that primarily commercial trade does not compound the threats posed to the species by loss of habitat."
Can you spot the weasel words which give away the truth that problem they want to solve doesn't yet exist?
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Public Doubt in CAGW Won't Last
Slide in climate change belief is a temporary glitch | Damian Carrington | guardian.co.uk
Is the world warming and are we causing it? The number of people confidently saying yes to that question has slipped sharply over recent weeks, if opinion polls on both sides of the Atlantic are to be believed. That looks like bad news for those arguing that major changes to how we travel, power our homes and feed ourselves are needed to avoid catastrophe....
it seems it took a perfect storm of snow, scientific doubt and political failure to dent public acceptance of the reality of global warming by about 10%.....
For greens that could be encouraging, as all those factors will fade. For sceptics, it's more likely to be worrying, as they have never had it so good in recent years.
The genie can be put back in the bottle...
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Friday Night is Music Night (From The Dusty Archives Edition)
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What rein can hold licentious wickedness When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
Cheese-rolling race axed after 200 years... thanks to health and safety killjoys
Health and Safety - can you see any problem?
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
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Our Bill of Rights and Liberties
Many have argued that our Bill of Rights should be respected and obeyed so it is heartening to see some doughty MPs leaping to its defence. I do hope that as they grasp at a bizarre interpretation of one of its clauses that they have always fully observed, defended and argued for all the other ones which protect the right of the subject against the overbearing power of the state. To suggest they haven't would be to accuse them of being cynical self-serving troughers.
BILL OF RIGHTS [1689]
An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling
the Succession of the Crown
Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at
Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of
the people of this realm, did upon the thirteenth day of February in the
year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty-eight [old style date]
present unto their Majesties, then called and known by the names and
style of William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, being present
in their proper persons, a certain declaration in writing made by the
said Lords and Commons in the words following, viz.:
(Continues)
Continue reading "Our Bill of Rights and Liberties"
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March 11, 2010
The IPCC review
Will it be more widely trusted?
It's possible to divide published opinions on the issue into three broad categories: those who are only concerned with getting the message across that man-made climate change is an over-riding threat requiring urgent action, those who are concerned about the issue but are more concerned by what they see as lack of rigour and transparency within the IPCC, and those who are convinced that global warming is a fraud anyway and the IPCC one of the lead swindlers....
...how independent the scientists on the Inter-Academy Council's review panel will be from the scientists who contributed work to the IPCC in the first place. There's also the wider point that some of the institutions involved with the Inter-Academy Council, such as the UK's Royal Society, have taken a very public stance on climate change.
But to assume this will automatically cause problems for the review is, I think, to misunderstand its nature and purpose.
It is not a review of climate science - some would say it ought to be, but it isn't, it's a review of IPCC practice ..
Will the Inter-Academy Council choose to make use of expertise from fields apparently unrelated to climate science? We shall see - and that, perhaps, will be one of the factors that determines how meaningful and visionary the review turns out to be, and how it is eventually perceived.
And we will be watching it carefully - we have seen to many inside job reviews already. To restore trust it needs to be rigorous, independent and from outside the circled wagons.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig...
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You Be The Judge
Be your own judge: try your hand at sentencing - Times Online
The launch of an interactive website, You Be the Judge (http://ybtj.cjsonline.gov.uk/) will give the public a chance to pass their own sentences on real cases, working through mitigating and aggravating factors. The aim was to help the public to understand that sentencing was not just an arbitrary decision but a difficult and complex process, based on many factors.
Fun for the whole family - I've got the black wig on but I can't find the hang'em all button....
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Irrelevant Chatter on Minimum Pricing
Ordinary drinkers 'have nothing to fear' from minimum alcohol pricing - Scotsman.com News
As both the Scottish and Westminster parliaments debated the issue, the chair of the House of Commons health select committee, Kevin Barron, called for the measure to stem increasing rates of addiction and the multi-billion pound cost to society in terms of treatment and crime...
And not a mention about the EU court upholding opposition to minimum pricing.
They can blather on as much as they like in their expensive talking shops but the EU rules on this, not them. I don't expect the politicians to acknowledge this inconvenient truth, but you would think a journalist might.
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March 10, 2010
Freedom for Scottish Schools Inches Nearer
Scottish Tory proposals aim for less state control of education - Times Online
Scotland’s Education Secretary last night gave a guarded welcome to Conservative proposals for new schools funded by the taxpayer but run by independent charities or trusts. Such schools would be free to set their own priorities but could not seek private funding or operate a selective admissions policy.
In a surprising a response to the policy announcement, Michael Russell said he was open to “interesting proposals” and wanted debate on diverse forms of education delivery. He is to travel to Sweden — which operates a scheme like the one Conservatives want to import — on a fact-finding mission this weekend.
Another step closer to a better system, and refreshing it is across party boundaries. If only the Tories weren't so scared of, and Labour so in the pay of, the Education Establishment in England...
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IPCC - Move along now, the experts will tell you all is fine.
UN to review errors made by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Times Online
The United Nations is to announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility.
That must be a use of the word "independent" that I'm not familiar with as its stated aim is to provide a PR whitewash.
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The Glasgow Commonwealth Games Plughole Logo
CONCERNS have been raised over the Glasgow Commonwealth Games logo
The new branding for the Games, which cost organisers £95,000, was launched amid a fanfare on Monday and is said to represent the unique aspects of the historic event.
The logo consists of four circles which represent different aspects of the Games. It is based around four numbers associated with the Games – the 20th time the Games have been held, the 17 sports represented, the 11 days of the competition and one host city. The second ring is precisely 17/20ths of the size of the full outer circle, and the third ring is 11/20ths of the size.
At the heart of the logo is the letter G standing for the host city. It was designed by Marque Creative, which was chosen from 66 contenders.
Critics have carped it looks just like money being poured down a plughole, which is they concede is only appropriate.
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