Archive for August, 2008
It’s come to this
August 4th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
As I returned home from a meeting in central London today, I found that my local underground station of Sudbury Hill had something unusual positioned at the ticket barriers. There were several policemen selecting young men to go through a metal detector to see if knives were being carried. I guess this is a sensible […]
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The American presidential election (53)
August 4th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
The presumptive Democratic candidate in the US Presidential race Barack Obama is 47 today. Hopefully, he will celebrate his next eight birthdays in the White House. His Republican opponent John McCain will be 72 on 29 August. Hopefully, he will celebrate many more birthdays in the Senate.
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How do you spend your Saturday?
August 2nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
For the last three consecutive Saturdays, I’ve started the day in a city centre hotel giving a short speech to consumers selected by Ipsos MORI for a deliberative research project on behalf of Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services. Two weeks ago, it was Edinburgh; last week, it was Sheffield; today it is London. […]
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100 months to save the planet
August 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
According to a new campaign launched by the New Economics Foundation in the UK, in just 100 months’ time we could reach a tipping point in terms of climate change whereby we reach a concentration of greenhouse gases at which it is no longer “likely” that the world will stay below the 2C temperature rise […]
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What do you believe?
August 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Almost everyone I know believes something that at best I feel has no credible evidence to support it and at worst I feel is absolutely crackers. What sort of beliefs am i thinking of? Well, here are 10 things that a proportion of UK adults said that they believed for a survey to mark the […]
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