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Friday, 29 November 2013

The "Deserving Rich" - A Confederacy of Dunces

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Many years ago, I witnessed an evangelical church service which culminated in the pastor asking the congregation to thank God for bles...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013

The Man Who Stares at Groats - positive currency for Scotland's Future

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Salmond and the ancient Scots groat The Scottish Government has today launched a far reaching white paper, Scotland's Future , out...
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Thursday, 14 November 2013

Who Needs A Bedroom When You've Got the House of Commons?

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MPs debated the Bedroom Tax this week. Tories and Lib Dems combined to vote down a  Labour proposal to scrap this pernicious tax which has ...
Sunday, 27 October 2013

Perfect Night

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"There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time." - Lou Reed , who died toda...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Dennis Skinner talking about Atos at PMQ's 16/10/2013

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Sunday, 15 September 2013

International

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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has nothing but eyes if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at ...
Saturday, 14 September 2013

Green Party Conference: Speeches by MP and Leader

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Green Party conference is meeting this weekend in Brighton, where it runs the local council. It has backed a number of motions on opposing ...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

9/11 - Never Giving Up on Humanity

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Twelve years ago today, the world witnessed the appalling and devastating attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, as well as on the Pentago...

If The Lights Go Out...

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Well, whether Green or capitalist, we are all concerned about the risk of future energy demands outstripping supply. Just this week, Channe...
Saturday, 7 September 2013

Frankie Goes To Damascus

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The current impasse over Syria between Presidents Obama and Putin, which came to a head at this week's G20 summit with separate camps a...
Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Declaration of War

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Chamberlain: "Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my pu...
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Sunday, 25 August 2013

Elysium Now: One Planet, Two Worlds

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So it is Hollywood not arthouse, but the movie "Elysium" , from the Director of the powerful "District 9" provides a th...

Lib Dems & Fracking - Having It Both Ways

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"I love shale gas" - Lib Dem Energy Secretary Ed Davey, 10 July at the APPG on unconventional gas and oil. "It is fantastic...
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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Fracking Greed and Money

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Don't drink the water! - from "Gasland" - view trailer here . "It's two factors - greed and money ." The...
Monday, 5 August 2013

Enterprise Britain

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The Coalition's supposedly "red-tape free flexible economy" has been exposed for what it is this week - exploitative and ...
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Wednesday, 24 July 2013

GAME OVER? : The North Pole Is Now A Lake

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And so it finally has happened. After several years of ignored warnings, with environmentalists dismissed as alarmist, the evidence is irre...
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Counting the Cost of Fire & Ice: methane melt and the business case

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A report this week has acknowledged that the increasing release of methane gases trapped for millions of years under now-melting permafros...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

Take My Breath Away: Surfing on the Solar Impulse

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Solar Impulse - its not fuel as we know it. Air travel is often highlighted as a major contributor to the carbon emissions that are ...
Thursday, 13 June 2013

Choking on the Crumbs: Breadline Britain

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Britain's jobless fell by 5,000 this week. In our recession hit country, a mere two and a half million souls are officially out o...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Guest Blog: Edward Thomas on Syria's Disabled Future

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As Britain, France and the USA step up their preparations to supply weapons to some of the rebel factions in increasingly divided, sectari...