News and Updates

I thought my trusty electric car – a VW eUp! – had a serious problem the other week when it would not charge, and I didn’t have enough in the battery to get it to a VW dealer – an...

The other day, a kind sympathiser sent me pics of a set of UK Brexit stamps (all with a forged Queen’s head) that are entertaining the internet. There’s – a sculpture of a bloke with his head in his hands...

Are the gilets jaunes protests in France anti-environmental, as some are claiming, or are they mostly a cri de coeur about the disdain with which other people are regarded by metropolitan and cultural elites?   In other words, are they...

I went to my first meeting of LEEF last week.  If I lived in London I’d be there all the time.  The meeting was to launch the King’s College research reports and I’d been invited to say a few words....

1 – Lord King, the retired Bank of England governor has taught at New York University for the past few years.  I read that he was recently required to complete a questionnaire by the university's identity/diversity bureaucracy/polizei.  One item asked about...

A wise academic once said to me that you're quids in if you've got some data; that is, if you've done some proper research.  The problem with being retired from research is that you don't have data any more and...

The following is an extract from Jenni Russell's Times column of October 25th. "This summer the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a global survey of inequality, detailing how hard it is for individuals to escape their backgrounds....

Last week's News Round-up from NAEE had a feature on the new Connecting Classrooms for Global Learning programme which has now been launched.  The details are here and their website says: “The new Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning programme supports schools internationally to...

I've been reading the 2018 Living Planet Index, something best read in daylight.  I was alerted to it by a headline and link in Climate Action.  The headline was: 60% of wildlife has been wiped out by humans since 1970, WWF finds...

This is a Times leader from a couple of weeks ago.  I'm reprinting it because I agree with it.  These points were made in The World we'll Leave Behind. Europe’s blinkered resistance to gene editing is a blow to good science...