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Parliament, 1857: "Please Sir! I've made it nice and clean."

Brown = 5; Cameron = 5; Clegg = 5. Delicate flowers need not read further.

I don't think I can do it this week.

Ten years ago 70,000 days were lost across the public sector due to strikes.

Last year that figure was 353,000, a five fold increase. With 270,000 on strike yesterday that number will probably reach a million this year.

Ron Broxted

B.N.P and the Daily Telegraph

Adolf Hitler Who has the most to gain from the fall out over M.P's expenses? The Daily Telegraph launched the story but it ceased to back the Conservatives as they were not Eurosceptic enough. Read more...

Known Only Unto God

"Known only unto God" was a line written by Rudyard Kipling to commemorate his dead son and all of those who perished during the Great War. Lines of graves with "Unknown soldier" who if they are fortunate get a regimental badge, scatter the fields of France and Flanders. Read more...

Labour Nepostism

Does Georgia Gould typify a somewhat arrogant attitude by Millbank to the plebians that actually turn out to vote? It would appear so according to the evidence. Read more...

Stephen Lathwell

New Scientist about-face

Well, as said before, I don't like New (Nu) Scientist, as it has an uncritical bias for the Environmentalist 'Man-Made' Global Warming Agenda. So I was surprised to read on Page 3 of this week's edition a criticism of the IPCC. Read more...

Irish Politics are a Sobering Lesson

I would like to consider Ireland’s politics in juxtaposition to the BNP and other extremist organisations and Esther Rantzen, who are standing as candidates for election for Luton South MP.

Tree rings a scientific fraud!

It was late at night, on Tuesday, and I was listening to the House of Lords Debate about the Environment and was agog to hear that Tree Rings were an accurate measurement of temperature. Fortunately BBC The Record is repeated an hour later! I went web-hunting and lo-behold Read more...

Columnists

PMQs live chat 10th March

Big Ben PMQs live chat 10th March:

Live chat PMQs with BBC2's The Daily Politics (no relation) from 11:30 am, join us to see what Brown has to say about the latest allegations that troops did not receive adequate support in terms of equipment and funding:

PMQs live chat

Live chat PMQs with BBC2's The Daily Politics (no relation) from 11:30 am: Read more...

After turbines, kites?

The turbine may be the icon of modern wind power generation for now but it could be replaced by the kite in most, if not all, wind generation applications sometime in the next couple of decades. Read more...

Salted Slug

The cosmos wants to kill your car

This is probably a new one for those of you not involved with the semiconductor industry or the associated sciences, but here we go.
First off, I have to introduce the concept of a Single Event Effect (SEE). This is what happens when a highly energetic particle (neutron), present in the environment, strikes a sensitive region of an electronic device - disrupting its correct operation. Read more...

The Large Hadron Collider, small step or giant leap?

Earth, Nov. 2009 I’m off to Oz tomorrow, and as they’re likely to fire it up whilst I’m away, I thought it best to fire out another LHC- post.

Last time I gave a run-through of the concepts and science involved with that there hadron smasher, but now I’m going to talk about some of the engineering involved Read more...

Single atom transistor

What these guys have done is very cool. Here’s the abstract.

Blogs

Blogging eats PCs

Driver problems are relatively frequent, hard drive failures less so. The problem is that the two can easily be confused, especially if your disk takes a few days to die.

Of course once that happens, you're knackered and it's new disks and a full restore or reinstallation. . . . .

Like I haven't anything better to do.

China microbloggers ask: Where has president gone?

Chinese President Hu Jintao Feb. 13th (AP) BEIJING (AP) — Where is President Hu Jintao?

That's the question online supporters were asking Tuesday after a user account for the stiff and formal politician disappeared from a Twitter-like microblogging site two days after it was discovered. Read more...

Bloglinks

For those linking to The Daily politics via the bloglist widget will need to update the URL, either of the following feeds work (I've checked):

I'll review the feeds with a view to categorising the content more clearly when I have a moment.

Cartoon

Our troops will have what ever they require

Tin foil Gordon:

Brown's active media blocking device

Author: David Forward of Tractor Stats

Video

"Rule one. No pooftahs" Ozzie broadcasters in hot water over comments

SYDNEY (AP) — Homophobic comments made by two commentators on an Australian TV network's Winter Olympic coverage will be investigated by the New South Wales state's Anti-Discrimination Board.

Question Time February 11th 2010

Shaun Woodward, Garry Kelly, Sammy Wilson, Lord Trimble amd Jim Allistair from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Where's the moral high ground?