This piece by Rhodri Morgan deserves a wider audience today . Whilst some Labour MPs have been trying to quash further devolution it is clear that Rhodri Morgan is getting behind the referendum in a big way following Sir Emyr Jones Parry’s report yesterday. Today the incumbent Fist Minister, who has been tipped to possibly lead a YES campaign, has been backing Plaid’s views. Some of what Morgan has...

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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that won’t make it to the US for a good while...

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For many trans people, life is not easy. Nobody said it would be. But being trans is not something we choose and as a consequence transitioning may not be an option either. For some of us it's something which we...

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I’ve been quite critical of the 10:10 campaign previously, not because I believe it will be damaging or because it’s misguided per se, but because we all know we need to more than wear woollen jumpers, which is one of the things people can do to allegedly reduce their emissions by 10%, and because any [...]

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It is claimed that the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has been hacked and there is a massive file of emails and code up on a server in Russia. If what has been posted is real then the balloon is about to go up. Excerpts of the emails have been posted here . They include a CRU scientist welcoming the death of a prominent sceptic, discussion of how to fiddle results and so on....

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Yesterday, I posted that injured soccer player Robin van Persie flew to Serbia for a "placenta oil massage" he hoped would heal him. Apparently, the placenta treatment worked, but the Telegraph reports that it may have been more invasive than a massage: "The injection of horse placenta on to the affected area is claimed to speed up the recovery process and, while it is not known whether (teammate Yossi)...

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A US federal jury ruled that New York City police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a professional clown who left a suspicious item that turned out to be a balloon inflation device inside a coffee shop.

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Sir Hugh Orde says directly-elected commissioners would undermine police independence

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LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union's new foreign affairs chief on Friday dismissed criticism of her lack of experience and said her role would strengthen Europe's voice in the world.

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EU leaders react to the appointment of Belgian PM Herman van Rompuy as the first permanent European Council President.

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Residents hit by torrential flooding in the Cumbrian towns of Cockermouth and Workington have told of their disbelief at seeing the roads around their homes turned into rivers.

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Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now in Parliament to give the Secretary of State power to amend copyright law by statutory instrument, effectively allowing he and his successors to do anything, without parliamentary approval or debate, provided it is done in the name of protecting copyright. Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing has the details : read more

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