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Big Tesco is watching you
Published 27 September 2024 Comments Off on Big Tesco is watching youSupermarkets are planning to deploy AI to police and meddle in our diets
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Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda will leave Britain in the dark
Published 19 September 2024 Comments Off on Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda will leave Britain in the darkEnergy companies are already warning their customers about the power cuts to come
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Why Labour’s ‘right to switch off’ is bad for workers
Published 3 September 2024 Comments Off on Why Labour’s ‘right to switch off’ is bad for workersObsessing over work-life balance is a poor substitute for raising living standards
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Starmer will let the ‘Blob’ take over Britain
Published 14 August 2024 Comments Off on Starmer will let the ‘Blob’ take over BritainBritain’s unelected and ineffective quangocrats are already amassing more power under Labour
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Environmentalism is at the root of the housing crisis
Published 26 July 2024 Comments Off on Environmentalism is at the root of the housing crisisLabour’s pandering to green quangos shows it’s not remotely serious about building the homes we need
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Miliband’s Net Zero militancy is a disaster in the making
Published 12 July 2024 Comments Off on Miliband’s Net Zero militancy is a disaster in the makingHis ban on North Sea oil and gas drilling has exposed his contempt for British industry and workers
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How Net Zero leads to mouldy homes
Published 10 June 2024 Comments Off on How Net Zero leads to mouldy homesThe UK government’s insulation programme has been an all-too-predictable disaster
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The truth about D-Day, 80 years on
Published 2 June 2024 Comments Off on The truth about D-Day, 80 years onTroops were fighting for democracy at home as well as abroad
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Details in this Sunday Times article are extraordinary but unsurprising: Seems the PUBLIC are seen as a problematic threat to be managed/manipulated. Surely CPS impartiality is compromised by this decision? Read on...
1.6GW total from wind and solar this morning, from a total of ~45GW installed capacity. We're keeping the lights on by burning trees and gas. Nukes and reliance upon interconnectors making up the difference. No chance we can hit Net Zero grid by 2030.
“Mother Nature is in charge, and so we must make sure we adjust”.
Ex-cop Democratic Party mayor, indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges, supported by Trump and critical of antisemitism, tells people to tighten their... throats.
What a mess! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/new-york-water-shortage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls