Monthly Archive:: November 2015
27 Nov 2015
More Carbon Reduction, More Premature Deaths?
By Bobbo On 27 November 2015 In Current Affairs/Political
The Paris climate talks meeting is convening on Monday 30th November to a background of coincidentally-timed scare stories, dutifully carried by the BBC and generated, as usual, by the University of East Anglia and the UN’s World
6 Nov 2015
Voting and Equivocal Mandates: Reform of the Lords should heed the EU experience
By Bobbo On 6 November 2015 In Current Affairs/Political
Mandate is an interesting word. Apart from sounding like a brand of aftershave or perfume formulated by the losing team from a task on “The Apprentice”, in a democracy it’s the authority for political action bestowed on
1 Nov 2015
Coincidence drives conspiracy theories, not conspiracy theorists
By Bobbo On 1 November 2015 In Current Affairs/Political
The former BBC correspondent, Jacky Sutton, was found dead, apparently hanged, in a toilet on the 17th of October in Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, Turkey, and was widely reported. The 50 year-old PhD student was acting Iraq director