Poole’s impeccably footnoted research reveals that the White House has fostered the impression that there is a lively debate over global warming – there is none – while fostering the big corporations’ “sound science” to distract attention from the disturbing findings of real science. For instance, Poole gives us a masterful dissection of the Bush [...]

The watchdog will also monitor all the services to make sure that none make false claims to be members of the new scheme.
The revamped code of practice has been introduced following concern that some of the websites (not named by Energy-watch) haven’t been playing by these rules, with the result that consumers might not get [...]

You get the whole kit and caboodle.” And for anyone who thinks that nursing is not for boys, there’s nothing feminine about De Wert’s fascination with some of the treatments nurses use on wounds, including larval therapy (using maggots to clean an infected wound).”Everyone sees nursing as wiping bums and feeding patients, but there are [...]

William Dennis Weaver, actor: born Joplin, Missouri 4 June 1924; married 1945 Gerry Stowell (three sons); died Ridgway, Colorado 24 February 2006. Dennis Weaver was familiar in his Stetson to television viewers worldwide – first as the limping deputy sheriff, Chester Goode, to James Arness’s Matt Dillon in the classic western series Gunsmoke, then as [...]

So he’s behaving like a teenager anxiously waiting for his Dad to leave – “Yes, of course I’ll look after everything, of course I won’t put tax rates up or abolish the monarchy.” Then as soon as Blair’s round the corner he’ll trash the place.In any case, does it matter that your soul is in [...]

And this jolly mask on the stick is being held by the real Edward Heath, standing behind in its shadows, and the face of the real Heath is dark and scowling and utterly, utterly, joyless. She stopped short of demanding compulsory pay audits, however.
More from Janet Street-Porter. On Monday Baroness Margaret Prosser’s Women and [...]

Just two-thirds of colleges with a union allowed students a place on their board, and 17 per cent of unions did not even have an office.Unlike in higher education, FE has no culture of students’ unions. The principal, Christine Braddock, declined to comment on the affair, which may scupper their chances of going to university.According [...]

The Attorney-General said in Parliament last month ‘antisocial behaviour orders are often a very important way of getting urgent intervention to people who are in need of help which otherwise they would not get.’
Social policy is being reshaped to put crime at the centre. We fill the crime category with people whose acts [...]

Bath could certainly have done with his experience and nous against the Tigers. Too often they kicked away possession, invariably finding Andy Goode, who merely sent the ball back, with interest.The home side’s handling was poor, and Ashton said: “Professional players should be able to hack conditions like that.” Perry’s assured hands, intelligent all-round game [...]

They say they are doing what they can without going out of business, losing customers or tearing up the production lines: the salt in breakfast cereals has been reduced by a third since 1998, and the same level of reduction has been made in bread, soups, sauces and Kraft cheese spreads and snacks.Professor McGregor is [...]