Science matches theories with evidence and attempts to falsify them, so they can be refined to better match reality. A theory from a group of scientists is just that: a theory. Believing the opinion of that group without critical verification … Read More »
Posted on behalf of Chik Collins and Peter Jones, as follow up to their earlier call No unsafe return to work! Stay at home! Unite across the UK to save lives and to work for a socially just reconstruction! In … Read More »
I don’t share [George] Monbiot’s faith in the impartiality of UN agencies and that includes the OPCW. If you deem, as I do, western powers guilty of a dirty war on Syria whose real drivers – like those in Yugoslavia, … Read More »
In Walking the Erewash I composed a limerick to steer readers past the pitfall of pronouncing the eponymous river as ‘earwash’. Pairing it with ‘very posh’ I thought to spare embarrassment, should ever you find yourself in that neck of … Read More »
. Was Ian Henderson a member of the Fact Finding Mission (FFM) sent to Douma in April 2018? A mission despatched by the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to investigate claims of Assad having used poison … Read More »
Here’s a question that’s foxed millions. Can you spot the odd one out in this list? George Bush’s discovery that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, Trump’s discovery that Assad used poison gas at Douma (with the OPCW leant on … Read More »
A few years ago I was on a UCU picket line for a one day strike at Sheffield Hallam University. I was now retired but remained a union member, and had shown up to do my bit. Picketers came and … Read More »
The financial resources government has made available for a pause in economic life show the viability of non-capitalist economic planning. But as in 2008, such largesse will come at huge cost to ordinary people unless the labour movement can show … Read More »
Recognising a few drawbacks of my pull to the darker side of TV drama (Scandinoir has run its course but there’s always Netflix and my Sopranos box sets) I’m seeking out more wholesome fare. Two examples being The Detectorists, a … Read More »
A passenger train approaches Toton in 1957 and a coal train can be seen on another line From Nottinghamshire Live, August 4, 2018: The Government has confirmed that Toton Sidings, one of the largest rail depots in the UK, will … Read More »