Author: Tim
Oh look, someone has noticed
A food crisis is highly likely in the UK, with price and availability becoming issues that swing the outcome of future elections, according to a report from the thinktank Chatham House. Grauniad Following on from Gordon Brown’s sudden insight that we had “fuel security” problems, now someone has noticed that we also have a “food…
Peak Oil. An end to commuting?
How will we cope in a world that can no longer rely on cheap and plentiful supplies of the one commodity – oil – that keeps it going? Guests: Matthew Simmons, CEO, Energy Investment bank Simmons & Co. Richard Heinberg, Senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute John Hemming MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary group…
Where'd it go?
Just been at www.scotland.gov.uk, “website of the Scottish Government”, and at www.wales.gov.uk, where there are in fact two web sites – “National Assembly for Wales website” www.assemblywales.org and, oddly, the Welsh Assembly Government website at new.wales.gov.uk (why ‘new’?). Then I went to www.england.gov.uk. Nope, nothing doing. No Government for the English. How will we cope?
Finally, Good News
If you had purchased £1,000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, With HBOS, earlier this week your £1,000 of shares would have been worth £16.50, £1,000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, If you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago,…
Meet Sally
The security services planned the arrest of the journalist with painstaking care. They bugged her contacts and assembled an elite squad to take her down. On 8 May 2007, eight detectives swarmed into her home and seized her address book, mobile, laptops and bank statements. In a simultaneous raid, a second team searched her newspaper…
Apocalypse Now
Not my usual reading, but these two articles by Peter Osborne in the Daily Mail caught my attention:- Apocalypse Now?: New world order could have devastating implications for Western nations …. “The British economy is in the same position as the Texan coast earlier this month as Hurricane Ike approached — apparently calm, with life…
Something Amazing III
I think a rainbow has to count as amazing, but so too do thunder clouds and lightning. I used to live in Stuttgart, my flat was high up on one of the hills overlooking the city and I have a vivid memory of watching a dramatic thunder storm pass over the city, lightning striking down…
Something Amazing II
Crookes Radiometer Never have quite “got” this improbable little thing. Pretty though, I used to have one on my bedroom windowsill when I was at school, used to go mad in direct sunlight.