“The secret of a good blog posting is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible”. (Taking off on George Burns) I’m sure you have noticed the incredible prolixity of the commentariat. My blog task is to take information on interesting topics, to sum …
A few weeks ago Owen, a contributor to this blog, criticised the BBC news as being superficial and lacking substance. This got me looking more often and more critically at it in its broadcast and web page forms. I have to conclude that Owen is absolutely right. For instance, yesterday the BBC carried a story …
At a time when voters are raging about greedy, self-serving elites, you’d think those in power would want to avoid playing to type. You’d be wrong. José Manuel Barroso, former president of the European Commission, has a new job at Goldman Sachs, the bank that “helped Greece mask its fatal debt problems”. He has nor …
About one third of all medical studies in the United States involving children never end up being put to use because scientists frequently don’t publish the results of their work. 19 percent of the studies that recruited children didn’t run to completion because researchers weren’t able to recruit as many volunteers as they needed to …
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The BBC ran an article on research conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. The results showed that less than a third of young people express any interest in politics. It found only 31% of 16 to 24-year-olds were fairly or very interested in the subject, compared with …
