Dr. Rupert Read, lead Green Party candidate in the Eastern Region for the EU election this month, sent the following letter to various newspapers in the region. I think it deserves wider distribution, so here it is ( Read more... )

Answer the questions on this web site to find out.

I was not surprised to find the Green Party came well on top for me and UKIP bottom, but I was surprised to find BNP above the Tories (but still well behind LibDems and Labour).

Interesting account of UKIP's record: http://britishinfluence.org/ukip-expenses-truth/

I note that there are renewed demands for UK and other countries (i.e. tax payers in those countries) to pay compensation to the present-day descendants of slaves in the Caribbean. This makes no sense to me at all ( Read more... )

Here is an extract from a Carl Sagan interview that I think every MP and journalist should be required to listen to and then apply in their own lives (by learning about scientific method):
http://www.upworthy.com/a-science-icon-died-17-years-ago-in-his-last-interview-he-made-a-warning-that-gives-me-goosebumps-5?g=2

Organisations such as the Manifesto Club and the human rights group Liberty have expressed serious concerns regarding the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill. Provisions within the bill criminalise any behaviour which can potentially cause 'nuisance or annoyance' from the age of 10. It also grants local authorities, police and even ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I have various items on politics on-line in various places with few links between them, and it might be an idea to at least put some links in, so here is one to kick it off. Here are my thoughts on Right and Wrong - What Is Morality?

Apparently Russian authorities announced they have launched a piracy investigation against a group of Greenpeace activists who boarded a Gazprom oil platform in the Arctic last week. I thought it was the Russians who were pirates, since they forcefully boarded an unarmed and peaceful protest vessel, threatened the crew with guns and imprisoned them ( Read more... )

There is a proposal to split the United Kingdom into two parts. The inhabitants of the smaller, northern, part are to be given a vote on whether they want this split to go ahead. Why don't the rest of us also get a vote on the proposal?

This is copy/pasted from an email received today from 38 degrees ( Read more... )