Katherine Courtney and the Science and Technology Committee
Katherine Courtney’s oral evidence to the Science and Technology Committee makes interesting reading. Q264 Chairman: Has that grown since the original concept by David Blunkett […]
All The Roadrunning
A birthday present from my wife; “All The Roadrunning” by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris is Knopfler’s latest excursion into country music. All the songs […]
Inevitable, Really…
Via Bookdrunk writing at the Devil’s Kitchen, this story: An internal investigation at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found that civil servants […]
Britblog 65
Britblog 65 is up.
Copyright Infringement
I’ve been meaning to write about this one for a while as the annoyance has been festering, so I’ll get it off my chest now; […]
If You’re Going To Get It Wrong…
The BBC interviewed the wrong man for an programme on music downloading: IT WAS not until midway through the live television interview that the BBC […]
Bristol and the Slave Trade
There is a debate raging in Bristol about the slave trade. From 1698 to its abolition in 1807 Bristol was part of the infamous slave […]
Black Trade
I was listening to Jeremy Vine again today – I really should stop this, it does my blood pressure no good at all… Anyway, the […]
More on Glaxo
Following on from yesterday’s story about animal rights extremists attempting to blackmail GlaxoSmithKline shareholders, the company has obtained an injunction: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has obtained a […]
Food Nazis
I first came across this story via Tim. Note, it’s at the bottom of the page, so you have to scroll down to see it: […]