UKIP announces plans to ban education about global warming in schools. Specifically, they want to stop screenings of Al Gore's film [i]An Inconvenient Truth[i]...
I already am sceptical about it. But that doesn't stop me being interested in other people's unusual experiences or finding out why they believe in it. This article by no means fully debunks the...
Despite all the warnings about seafronts, in connection with this storm we have footage on BBC of a small crowd, including one little-un, shrieking with delight at the crashing waves. Not to mention...
I've been waiting for an excuse to start a thread about this for some time and found just the thing I needed http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1302400-3.html emmie wrote:- //from figures...
Windoh!s XP/Windoze 7 w Firefox 25+ Preferred search engine: Google.co.uk Regrettably I've followed too many links from AOG's threads and now when I use a news-related search string I find the Daily...
Typhoon Haiyan approaches the Philippines http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24846813 Is this the worst tropical storm on record? (You'll see this on the breakfast news and I'll catch up with you...
No threads about this on AB so far. News broke late last night and you're usually pretty darn quick off the mark, so can I presume a total lack of interest?...
Dr Hans Rosling was the the guy with the graph on Newsnight last night. http://www.gapminder.org/ The graphic showed how birth rates in developing countries are reducing as they become steadily more...
Dimblebeeb warned us that he will be on BBC Question Time, next week and all I could think was "Oh no, not AGAIN". How much free publicity does this bloke need? How come other minority parties (like...
One of the survivors of the Lampedusa boat sinking tragedy told a TV reporter that he'd paid $5000 for his boat trip. Surely, this is a ludicrous claim as the air fare from Libya* can't be that steep?...
In recent political debate, statistics have been thrown up such as the Independence for Scotland vote being worth about £500 per year to those who vote to separate from the UK. This week, we have the...
Well, in an effort to out-compete other supermarket chains, they seem to have blown something a lot closer to home out of the water... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-24157275 Do...
The One Show is running its first ever phone poll just now. The question is "Would you buy shares in the Post Office when it is privatised?" Shouldn't this have been "Can you afford to buy shares in...
How long would it take me to read it?
And should MP's family members be specifically barred from government funded employment (tied to the MP's position, I mean)?...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides the figure which journalists then bang on about - £26,000-odd, last time I checked. We know that the 'arithmetic mean' is a useless figure because...
Was in the garden watching for shooting stars last night. Pitch dark because the local council turns the street lights off. I heard a bird calling out and then realised it was actually in flight,...
I've been Googling this and only getting false leads (similar 'Alive with Music' theme with different backing earlier this year and in previous years) Latest ad is showing about 6 times a day on the...