The survey has only now come to my attention, while listening to an interview with Fintan O'Toole hosted by World Affairs: "Brexit: Ireland and the English Question"

Anyway, here is part of the press release to the October 2018 findings

Key findings include:

1. Clear majorities of English Conservatives would support Scottish independence (79%) or ( Read more... )

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At G20, Donald Trump underlined he has neither the desire nor the capacity to lead the world and you got the strong sense some leaders were trying to find the best way to work around him, says Chris Uhlmann.

This entry was originally posted at http://marmoe.dreamwidth.org/105461.html.

As the two pages of tax returns take up a lot of oxygen from discussions on Trumpcare and the revised travel ban is being temporarily stopped in court to great news fanfare, you may want to keep another eye on the new Executive Order Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch. Each and every agency is given 180 days to justify its ( Read more... )

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In the comments on my last post I mentioned what happened to climate science under Harper in Canada. Here's a pertinent video from January 2014.

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Global sea-level expert John Church made to walk the plank by CSIRO
For John Church, a leading authority on sea-level rise caused by global warming, there was much that was fitting - and yet callous - about being sacked at sea ( Read more... )

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US ambassador to Germany summoned over Merkel phone monitoring claims

AFAIK, this is the first time post WWII for the German government to summon the US ambassdor.

The White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel's phone calls.
This sentence needs very careful reading. The White House denied listening in on Merkel's phone for the ( Read more... )

Jack Shafer: Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17048991
This time it's about internal documents and the funding of the Heartland Institute, one of the large anti-AGW think tanks. Emphasis added.This man - the gender is specified - gave just under $1m last year, a ( Read more... )