November 2010

A report in yesterday's Times (sorry, no link possible) about crop breeders developing glossy plants that will reflect more sunlight than duller varieties, and thus combat climate change.  Well, fine, but if there weren't so much prejudice against GMOs this...

I heard this morning that I have won £475,000 in this United Nations "online international program" – and I didn't even have to apply.  Now, haven't I always said that the UN was wonderful?  All I have to do, it...

DfE (and Ofsted) have responded to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry Transforming Education Outside the Classroom.  Annex 2 begins: Progress since 2004: 1. Under the previous Administration, significant progress was made in bringing together organisations with an interest in promoting...

It is with immense sadness that I have to report that my scholarly work has been traduced (yet again!); though mugged might be a better word. It's easy really: you find a quote that suits your purpose, you copy it making...

Today's Guardian has a story about a report on the Fairtrade Foundation which compares its effectiveness unfavourably with multinationals (Nestlé, etc) when it comes to helping developing world coffee farmers.  This is an IEA report which seems to say, amongst...

I have been reading Richard D North's blog – once again – having been absent from it for an inexplicably long while.  Whilst it is wide-ranging, it seems to me to be particularly helpful on the politics of climate change....