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Warmergate
Mr Eugenides (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Sciences
Will wonders never cease? Here's George Monbiot in the Guardian this morning : It's no use pretending this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I'm dismayed and deeply shaken by them. Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us... -
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Strong words
Tim Worstall (subscribe) | yesterday | International
Like Labour under Brown, idiot leaders mistook a bubble for their own skill. Ambrose EP……strong but correct. -
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The Guardian on the Digital Economy Bill
Amused Cynicism (subscribe) | yesterday | General
The Guardian has a good editorial on the Digital Economy Bill: The digital economy bill is misnamed. A more honest title for the legislation, recently introduced in the Lords, would be the copyright protection and punishment bill. It is less about creating the digital businesses of the 21st century than protecting the particular 20th century business [...] -
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Jean Charles de Menezes: price of a life
Liberal Conspiracy (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
One three year old boy strikes another 11 times with a metal bar, leaving the victim toddler covered in blood and in need of stitches. Should the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority pay out? Yes, the Tribunals Service ruled earlier this month, and probably rightly, too. Perhaps I should reconsider the forgiveness I have since freely extended [...] -
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No Gavels in English Courts? But I Saw it on the BBC
Discourse.net (subscribe) | yesterday | TV
According to Marcel Berlins, English judges have never had gavels, despite what you routinely see on the BBC. He is not amused. (via The Magistrate's Blog)... -
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Links 11/23/09
naked capitalism (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences
Moab man embraces simple life living in cave Denver Post (hat tip reader EV) Early Data Suggest Suicides Are Rising Wall Street Journal A risky trial that offers little reward Clive Crook, Financial Times After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue Guardian, I actually find this sort of gender stereotyping annoying, and worse, the women here are [...]
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Reuters: “ANALYSIS-Hacked climate e-mails awkward, not game changer”; Hackergate contest...
Climate Progress (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Sciences
Embarrassing climate e-mails will have limited impact Scientists behaving badly won’t change evidence…. WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue will not hurt the U.S. climate bill’s chance for passage or efforts to forge a global climate change deal. Already dubbed [...] -
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Hacked climate e-mails and FOI
Open Secrets (subscribe) | yesterday | Sciences
Freedom of information can be a troublesome matter for some academic institutions - and this is well illustrated by the surprising content of some e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and published on the internet a few days ago. The CRU is a leading centre for the study of climate change and has played a key role in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel... -
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DNA Database is Racist
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (subscribe) | 13 hours ago | Politics
With chilling echoes back to the data collected in Nazi Germany on genetics the startling truth about the criminal database is that 3 in ever 4 young black, British males finds himself on the DNA database . In total there is also a third of all Black men. Of course the computer itself is colour blind. But as each entrant on that database at present has been stopped, arrested and sampled, even if released... -
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Eugenic Arguments in the Times
Left Brain/Right Brain (subscribe) | yesterday | Health
Today’s Times carries an article that suggests that people with learning difficulties should not be allowed to have children because it would cost to much to support them. The children would suffer and some of these parents are also autistic “which will make loving and consistent parenthood extremely difficult.” The article is confused and wrong in [...] -
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ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox
NewsBusters (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sciences
The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal. Despite last Friday morning's bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists -- many with direct ties to the United Nations' Intergovernmental... -
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Bad Day At The Office?
For Girls Who Can't Do Football (subscribe) | 22/11/2009 | Football
Ever had one of those days at work when you wish you hadn't bothered to get out of bed, let alone turn up? Probably the Everton players yesterday. Definitely the Wigan team tonight. Almost certainly the journalist on the receiving end of this steely stare . And probably Wigan warrant another mention. Bet that dressing room was a bit subdued after the match. Back to practice first thing tomorrow lads!... - see all discussions
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Sarah Palin meets Billy Graham
Christian Today (subscribe) | 12 hours ago | International
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Widow's brave funeral tribute to Olaf Schmid
The Telegraph (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | International
The widow of Olaf Schmid the bomb disposal expert killed on his last day in Afghanistan before he was due to return home paid a powerful tribute to her husband at his funeral service in Truro Cathedral. There was prolonged applause when Christina Schmid resplendent in her husband's medals finished her eulogy. -
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Iraq war inquiry to get under way
Metro.co.uk (subscribe) | 12 hours ago | International
The long-awaited official inquiry into the Iraq War is to begin by taking evidence in public. -
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Iraq inquiry: Bush wanted Saddam dead for years
Metro.co.uk (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | International
Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing "regime change" in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was told today. -
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Richards resigns from World Cup bid
The Observer (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Sport
• Premier League chairman unhappy with recent reshuffle • David Gill also believed to be on verge of quitting campaign England's World Cup bid is reeling from yet another blow after its vice-chairman for international relations, Sir Dave Richards, tendered his resignation this morning. Richards was only appointed to the bid seven months ago. Indeed, even that move came belatedly after Lord Triesman... -
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More patients examined after 'coma' case
The Guardian (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | International
Steven Laureys says Rom Houben is extreme case, as mother says she always believed paralysed son was conscious The doctor credited with giving a Belgian man a new lease of life after he was wrongly believed to be in a coma for 23 years has said he is re-examining dozens of other cases. Rom Houben lay imprisoned in his own body for more than two decades before Dr Steven Laureys' intervention three...
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China jails man who helped quake victims
Belfast Telegraph (subscribe) | 15 hours ago | International
A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly-built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children during China's massive earthquake last year, it emerged. -
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£61.6bn emergency funds for banks
Metro.co.uk (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Economy
Emergency loans to Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS peaked at £61.6 billion at the height of the financial crisis, the Bank of England has said. -
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UK & World News: Dad under police guard in hospital after son, 4, found stabbed to death
The Daily Record (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | UK
DETECTIVES were today waiting to question a father of two suspected of stabbing his four-year-old son to death before turning the knife on himself. -
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Darwin debate rages on 150 years after "Origin"
Reuters UK (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | International
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of life without a creator. -
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Killer royal aide still on the run
icWales (subscribe) | 13 hours ago | UK
A former aide to the Duchess of York who murdered her boyfriend remains at large after absconding from an open prison. -
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Police under fire over terrorism arrests
Reuters UK (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | UK
LONDON (Reuters) - The government's terrorism watchdog has criticised police who arrested and then released without charge 12 men seized in April raids to foil a suspected al Qaeda plot. - see all breaking news
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