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So the UK Coalition government between the Tories and Liberal Democrats is 100 days old this week.
While this political milestone is somewhat meaningless, it does give political commentators a moment to measure how things are going.
When British Prime Minister David Cameron took power, he said he wanted the new coalition administration to be “the greenest [...]

The pseudo garbage that constitutes the British Daily Express newspaper yesterday ran a headline saying climate change was a con to put up taxes
Quoting yet another climate sceptic the Express served up a disservice to journalism, by completely manipulating the climate debate.
Suddenly sceptics are appearing out of the wood-work left, right and centre, spurred on [...]

Well who would have guessed it?  Just weeks ago I watched the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill bristle with honesty and defiance when he said he had released the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi purely and solely on compassionate grounds.
Nothing more, nothing less. Simple as that.
Ever since that statement, the plot has unravelled quicker than [...]

Is the special relationship between the US and UK going to be stretched to the limit over Lockerbie?
It is expected that this afternoon the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi will be freed from prison on compassionate grounds as he has terminal prostate cancer. Colonel Gaddafi’s private jet is waiting to take him home.
Kenny Macaskill, the Justice [...]

When the financial crisis hit and the global economy plunged into recession, many people argued that it would be a perfect opportunity for a “Green New Deal”, were the recovery would be built by green sustainable jobs.
You could solve the financial and climate crisis in one. But governments around the world have poured trillions into [...]