Nuclear non-proliferation should include the UK

I was going to write a piece about the recent anouncement that the USA and Russia are committing to reduce the number of nuclear warheads they have in service, and that we in the UK should be doing likewise. But George Monbiot has written something much better than I could, in his article War with the Ghosts which I… Continue reading Nuclear non-proliferation should include the UK

Changing the clocks doesn’t give more daylight

It must be time to change the clocks again, the news is full of the biannual demand to mess around with the timekeeping system still further. 1, 2, 3… One of the proposals to it move to what is being termed “Single/Double Summer Time” (SDST) — why not just call it what it is — Central European Time. Although… Continue reading Changing the clocks doesn’t give more daylight