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obama | george osborne | mandelson | rothschild | deripaska POLITICIANS PLAYING STUPI...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday surprised Parliament by demanding an official probe into the Conservative opposition economic spokesman George Osborne (pictured above with his wife) and his relationship with Russian billionaire businessman...

atheist bus | bus campaign | buses | god | stop worrying The atheist bus
The Devil's Kitchen

How an atheist bus ad might look: "there's probably no god, so stop worrying and enjoy your life."A little while ago, inspired by Ariane Sherine, Jon Worth started a tongue-in-cheek campaign to raise enough money to put an atheist advert on a London...

phil woolas | immigration minister | mr woolas | minister phil | 70 million No Action Offered
Chris Palmer

‘No action offered on migration’ says the BBC News website headline – a phrase derived from a Conservative party press release by the Shadow Immigration Minister, Dominic Grieve. This comes after Labour’s Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas had been f...

ros scott | chandila | dem presidential | liberal vision | baroness ros Where’s Lemby’...
Quaequam Blog!

You may remember that on Thursday I asked - for the second time - Lembit what I regard as some pertinent questions he needs to answer as part of his bid to be elected as Party President. This was in response to a rather daft article in the Shropshi...

us election | czechs | problems record | gop won | election trivia Reporting the politics of...
Jon Worth

Have a read of this article from BBC News Online. On the basis of one reading of it can any reader have the faintest idea what is actually going on? The headline - Vote splits Czechs over EU role - is very wide of the mark. It’s actually that ...

gadgets | mobile | square screens | even rectangles | bored squares CiBox Digital Photo Frame...
Gadget Venue

I recently received a CiBox 7 inch photo frame to review. The feature that stood out to me amongst the other frames I have seen is that the frame includes three facia plates allowing you to switch between colours to suit the theme of your home. This...

sexual health | young people | scouts | scout association | guidance Be Prepared To Give Scout...
ThunderDragon Blog

I am a Scout Leader, as I have mentioned at various points on this blog, and the Scouts Association got one hell of a lot of news coverage with this story: The Scout Association is to start offering its members sexual health and relationships advic...

social media | media classroom | collaboratory | web | executives donate Use the 2nd biggest Searc...
Better Business Blogging

Well, according to Comscore’s latest report, YouTube has now overtaken Yahoo and sits in second position (behind Google of course) when it comes to online search. Quite an achievement! But, to be honest, it some respects, it really doesn’...

parasitic classes | chris huhne | public finances | osborne | sort intemperate Thanks for the support, C...
PoliticalHackUK

It was nice to see a solid defence of the government in the Guardian yesterday'nothing merits the sort of intemperate scaremongering that Cameron andGeorge Osborne have been whipping up' Cameron said on Monday: "We ought now to be cutting people's t...

violent crime | serious violent | police forces | home office | crimes MORE LYING INCOMPETENCE -...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT

Police forces across England and Wales have been under-recording serious violent crime (above) for at least a decade, the UK Home Office admitted yesterday as it tried to explain away a sudden increase in violent crime statistics. But it refused to...

virtual theft | maple story | virtual husband | story computer | game Pixel Punishments
AlisonW - mostly harmless

The media today have been reporting the case of a Japanese woman arrested on Wednesday at her home in southern Miyazaki and taken over 600 miles (1,000km) to Sapporo† because she hacked her virtual ex-partner's account on an internet game — MapleSt...

jörg haider | joerg haider | austria | austrian far | personality built Heil Haider: Austrian Jus...
Anorak News

JOERG Haider is gone to live with Princess Diana. Chaider (pronounced Haider) is, of course, Hebrew for school. And there is much debate on whether Haider is a Mossad agent. The great and gut of Austrian politcs pay their respects: “He was a r...

1984 | mp | november 5th | sustanance | citizens pledged 1984 aint an instruction ...
ThunderDragon Blog

Even though our government appears to think that it is, with this being only the latest of a long list of Big Brother policies: Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government p...

ofqual | exam boards | exam board | gcse science | exam standards Old Friends News
Burning our money

Grandstanding... and worseVarious snippets concerning some of BOM's oldest friends:1. Davos EgofestOne of our very first posts was on Davos, the annual bunfight where Wall Street superstars and Russian oligarchs buy our enthralled rulers.The WEF was...

covered camera | chocolate | fire crews | escaped hamster | eight firemen Fire crews hunt escaped h...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

Eight firefighters have been called in to help find an escaped hamster in East Lothian. Two crews used a chocolate-covered camera and a vacuum cleaner to try and locate missing Fudgie at six-year-old Zoe Appleby's home in Dunbar. Fire crews spent fi...

credit card | credit cards | credit hotel | card type | recession Darling is like a ‘welfar...
The Wilted Rose

We all know the stereotypical image of the Labour-supporting ‘welfare mom’ with her credit cards in one hand and her ballot paper in the other voting for more of the same.  (Strangely similar to the old ‘armalite and the ballot box...

doctor says | israeli doctor | 10 downing | medical achievements | english doctor Pensioner drops legal act...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

A pensioner who tried to sue a shop over a falling Fray Bentos pie has finally dropped her bid for compensation. Rita Gibson said her life was ruined when the tinned pie fell on her in the Co-op store in Bedford Street, North Shields, damaging nerve...

battle agincourt | 593 years | french | routed many | number frenchmen Fuck the French
The Devil's Kitchen

What a load of flaccid wibble:Exactly 593 years after King Henry V's legendary victory, a revisionist conference will be held at the scene of the triumph.Academics will suggest that the extent of the feat of arms was massively exaggerated, with clai...

v security | civil liberties | liberties too | costs protecting | liberty v A consensus
The Devil's Kitchen

Effectively fisking Jackart's rather muddled review of V For Vendetta, Amused Cynicism finishes up with this rather splendid summary.It’s now time for people to coalesce upon a consensus that:if the present political climate continues, Britain in 20...

yougov poll | channel 4 | seat majority | 4 news | doesn’t dwell Happy Wednesday
Luke's Blog

Channel 4 YouGov poll of marginals (quote from C4 website):"The recent financial turmoil has boosted Labour's standing in the polls, according to part two of our Channel 4 News/YouGov Facing the Crunch poll.The Tory lead over Labour in key battlegro...

gas best | gas' link | control blood | also control | blood pressure Heidi Klum Family Day Out
Ja Kel Daily » Celeb Goss...

Photo Credit: Getty Images Heidi Klum spent the afternoon yesterday with her children having fun in the park Coldwater Canyon Park in LA. Heidi is one of the celebrity women that takes quality time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we...

thursday 23rd | 23rd october | ld | con | exactly since Council by-elections
Luke's Blog

Thursday night's council by-election results - rather belatedly as I am on holiday:: Charnwood DC, Loughborough Disgley and Hathern Ward. Lab hold. Lab 838 (49.7%; +5.0), Con 490 (29.1%; -9.7), BNP 234 (13.9%; -2.6), LD 107 (6.4%; +6.4), Nati...

sir ken | security state | ken macdonald | says sir | encroaching darkness Wise Words
Heresy Corner

The other day Jacqui Smith called - with the usual spuriousness of a government that only lauches consultations when it has already decided the answer - for a wide-ranging debate on her plans for a massive new communications database. Well, it look...

mccain campaign | jeremiah wright | backward b | campaign worker | nyt mag Colin Powell’s Racist Unk...
Anorak News

COLIN Powell for Barack Obama. Only: But then Powell raised the ante. Citing unnamed Republican party leaders (not McCain), he said these leaders made allegations to him that Obama was a Muslim and therefore a “terrorist”. Really? I would like to...

loads sand | 500 truck | hundreds tonnes | beach | estimated 500 Jamaican police baffled b...
Odd News | newslite.tv

Police in Jamaica are investigating the theft of entire beaches from the island's north coast.Detectives say hundreds of tons of sand have been stolen from resorts where a good beach is seen as one of the most valuable assets you can have.Up to 500 ...

found wedged | naked man | suspicion burglary | ormskirk road | chimney breast Naked man found wedged in...
Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

A naked man found wedged in the chimney of a supermarket in Wigan has been arrested on suspicion of burglary. Police officers discovered him trapped in a chimney breast of a Tesco Express store on Ormskirk Road, Pemberton. Firefighters were called t...

richard holbrooke | paddy ashdown | daniel korski | keg paddy | bosnian powder Bosnia on the brink
NightHawk

Last year, I visited Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In my account of the holiday, I wrote:"There has been a great deal of reconstruction and investment is slowly coming in from abroad, but there is still unemployment of around one-...

andrew sullivan | sarah palin’s | sullivan titled | sarah palin | titled why Sarah Palin’s Smear Test
Anorak News

ANDREW Sullivan is obsessed with Sarah Palin’s vagina and reproductive system. The NY Times says: Nothing is known publicly about Ms. Palin’s medical history, aside from the much-discussed circumstances surrounding the birth of her fifth child...

us ambassador | sowell | next us | oprah | rio's next No Win situation...
Freedom and Whisky

I see that Oprah may be the next US ambassador in London. Not a good idea, I think. These days we need someone who is knowledgeable about economics.Now, I fully understand that President Obama will want to appoint some fellow persons of colour to ke...

record amount | jeremy purvis | uk borrowed | amount money | borrowing record Release bid "hypothetical...
The Lockerbie Case

First Minister Alex Salmond has declined to answer "hypothetical" questions about the treatment of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. (...)Mr Salmond said there was no application before the Scottish Government and it would be wrong to "pre...

 

UK leads world in climate change initiatives

FCO Bloggers: Global conversations October 23rd, 2008
I want to draw your attention to UK's Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband's announcement regarding new climate change policies. Simply put, the UK will commit to cut its emissions 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. The Secretary explicitly rejected the idea that the financial crisis should cause the world to pull back on climate change action, saying that those who advise this "misunderstand the relationship between the economic and environmental tasks we face." Aside from committing to dramatically cut emissions, Mr. Miliband is also planning to introduce a 'feed-in tariff' for small renewable energy projects. For those not familiar with electricity lingo, feed-in tariffs are used to help renewable sources of electricity overcome the economic hurdles of...