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  Closing Post Offices? Now?

  Tax Research UK (subscribe) | yesterday | Other

    The Observer has reported: Ministers have admitted that thousands more post offices will crash out of business - in addition to the 2,500 that have already closed - if a contract for handling state pensions and benefits is not given to the Royal Mail. A long-awaited decision on who wins the tender to run the successor to [...]

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  42 days is dead

  Nick Robinson's Newslog (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    If it were not for the small matter of a global financial crisis or the vital debate over what Peter Mandelson did or did not say over the humous to George Osborne, all eyes would now be on the next stage of the debate about extending detention without trial. It is clear this morning that 42 days is politically dead . Ministers have told Gordon Brown that when the proposal comes to the Lords - probably...

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  The Beer-filled USB Drive

  Coolest Gadgets (subscribe) | 05/10/2008 | Technology

    Let’s say that you’ve run out of beer and for some awful reason you can’t go get more. What could possibly taunt you more than a beer filled USB drive? I swear it would not surprise me in the least to see a news bulletin somewhere, where a guy decided to try to suck the beer out of his USB drive. It’d likely start with one guy either daring or offering up some small fund to do it, like a dollar. It...

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  A Question for Constitutional Experts

  Iain Dale's Diary (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    Remember the problems Tony Blair encountered when he tried to abolish the post of Lord Chancellor and found he needed to legislate in order to do so? Well, a similar thing happened last week. The PM wanted to abolish the posts of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland Secretaries and create a new Department of the Nations, but then found he couldn't when government lawyers said they too could not be...

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  London We have A Nuclear Problem

  <B>Power and Control</B> (subscribe) | yesterday | UK

    It seems the Brits have built a number of shoddy nuclear plants . The results may be electrical shortages this winter. In theory, at least, Britain now has 10 operating nuclear power stations, stretching from Torness on the Firth of Forth to Dungeness on the south Kent coast. Each has two reactors, and ministers boast that they supply about one-fifth of the power that keeps the lights on. The reality,...

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