According to last weekend’s papers, this is the coldest start to a UK winter for more than 30 years. Of course this is no indication that the global warming crew are in any way mistaken. If, on the other hand,…
Read: Cold, crazy and cooking
The election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States is something I welcome because it gives an opportunity to see if basic change is possible in the policies of the United States – if, in particular,…
Read: Sizzling miscalculations
On the way back from a spectacular holiday in Switzerland, during which my wife and I enjoyed journeys in 23 trains, I was asked – among other things – to say why I had chosen that particular holiday. First on…
Read: Slowly round the bend
Newspapers, radio and television have a growing role in the reinforcement of dubious messages. Why growing? Because in the past editorial resources were larger, enabling more detailed research into stories; and the awful hanging, ominous shadow of PR was absent….
Read: Corridors of myths
Famed Norfolk explorer Richard Meek (recently placed an astonishing but well-deserved sixth in a list of people having the most influence on life in Nelson’s County) has brought a moment of great significance to my attention. According to an item…
Read: Naming the guilty hut
You’ve got to laugh, haven’t you? Al Gore’s full-of-holes science film An Inconvenient Truth wins him a Peace Prize, but Channel 4’s counter to it, The Great Global Warming Swindle, “did not fulfil obligations to be impartial”. Well, Mr Gore…
Read: Ignoring the evidence
Following publication in the Eastern Daily Press of the “Power 100” list of the most influential business people in Norfolk, I feel compelled to give publicity to some of those who were overlooked. I have come up with a Top…
Read: Houseago tops the lot
The debate about a 20mph speed limit for Norwich rages on through various humps, chicanes and diversions – though not too fast, of course, since that would be dangerous. A really quite astonishing number of letters have been published by…
The Campaign to Make Unusual People Exactly The Same (MUPETS) scored another victory when its Everyone Drive More Slowly Regardless branch persuaded Norwich City Council that a blanket reduction of city speed limits to 20mph was a good idea. The…
Towards the end of last week a research paper published in the journal Nature suggested that global warming would stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate. The fact that this was published in a prestige…