UK fracking net widens
Many areas of Britain are to be opened up for shale gas drilling, it has been reported, with the government offering local communities up to £100,000 for each well that
Month: December 2013
Conventional economics has become completely divorced from reality
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/49953262] Conventional economics has become completely detached from reality – David Suzuki on SustainableMan http://ow.ly/rGt1n http://ow.ly/rGtcX
Review, reorganise, cut. Welcome to your new NHS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1sevQpQLQ So the NHS faces another reorganisation … again. When doesn’t it? Fresh from his high court defeat by health campaigners in south east London, health secretary Jeremy Hunt is
Thinking of selling your house, part 2
Home repossessions ‘are set to soar again’, says the soaraway Daily Mail, which adds: “Thousands could lose properties when period of rock-bottom interest rates ends.” It also quotes experts who
Fear of socialism still keeps 10% of Americans awake at night, study finds
Millions of ordinary Americans feel an all-pervading sense of impending doom over “the world’s all-too-likely surrender to socialism”, it has been revealed. Up to a third of the US population
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Thinking of selling your house? I’d do it now if I were you…
The risk of the UK suffering another property crash within two years are rising. Which might seem ironic given that mortgage lending and house prices are rising the moment, particularly
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Broadstairs survives Hurricane Katrina storm surge
The terrifying tidal surge that hit the Thanet coast at Broadstairs on Thursday evening was the work of Hurricane Katrina, scientists have revealed. Though it was back in 2005 that
US threats against the Palestinians ensure an unjust ‘peace’
The Palestinian leadership is caught on the horns of a dilemma. Since being granted ‘non-member observer state’ status by the UN General Assembly in November 2012, the Palestinian authority has
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Credit rating agency downgrades own stock to junk status and admits: ‘We’re crap’
In a move which has shaken the global financial industry to its very foundations, a leading credit rating agency has today downgraded its own stock to junk status. The agency
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Nelson Mandela: Cameron’s tributes can’t hide Tories’ dark past
Prime minister David Cameron led the world’s tributes to Nelson Mandela last night, as news of his death confirmed what most of us have been expecting for months. He said:
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