When the government is searching for new ideas it always has to look abroad (usually to less centralised places such as America), since councils in Britain have little freedom to experiment with new ways of doing things. Trust [...]
Nearly 30 convicted killers released from jail over the past 10 years have gone on to kill again, according to Home Office figures released yesterday. Convicted murderers who were set free to kill, [London] ‘Daily Telegraph’, 26 JanuaryAlong with most of my generation I have an instinctive horror of [...]
In recent weeks, a rush of climate-change bills has started circulating in America’s new Congress. … A national cap on emissions of carbon-dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, looks closer than ever. … Part of the approach is likely to be a carbon-trading system, which companies [...]
We foresee great peril if governments and society do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and prevent further [...]
Just as EU trade barriers that prevent African farmers selling [...]
The Director of Yale University's Center for Eating and Weight Disorders explains the miracle formula used by diet books to become bestsellers for over a century now: "easy, rapid weight loss; the opportunity to eat your favorite foods and some scientific 'breakthrough' that usually doesn't exist." As one weight loss [...]
Millions of Thai root vegetables are used in the production of starch and then dumped in ponds where they emit methane, a gas 21 times more harmful than carbon dioxide. The [British] Government claims that by sealing the pulp in plastic containers, thus preventing the methane escaping, it will offset [...]
James Johnson, the chairman of the British Medical Association, said that if the health service failed to break even this year, ministers would "look very carefully" at what should happen next. "Don't assume there's anything automatic about the system we have at the moment continuing in perpetuity," Mr Johnson said.That [...]
[A]lthough Obama is by no means [...]
