It was announced this week that the Royal College of Physicians in Britain is urging lawmakers to pass a ban on smoking in cars, citing the dangers of second hand smoke to passengers. And they're not just talking about the risk of developing cancer, but the effects of smoke that lead to respiratory infections, ear infections, asthma attacks and even SIDS in babies. All of these preventable effects put more financial strain on an already taxed health care system.
This week, for the third time out of the last four, there will be no Liberal Democrat Parliamentarian on BBC Question Time. The summary and response to recent complaints to the BBC and how to complain to the BBC.
Why is the United States fighting in Afghanistan? This simple question is difficult to answer with certainty. Without the benefit of top-secret clearance and connections, revealing the true answer is akin to solving a jigsaw puzzle while gloved and blindfolded. And that is the easy part. If one then happens upon the solution, proof of success is even more difficult- if not impossible. Nonetheless, this is the type of question that thinking men are compelled to solve.
The new coalition government in Britain looks very promising. Harsh measures will be needed to correct the current economic crisis, and the best minds from both parties will be working together to find solutions.
Lots of my friends and colleagues are concerned, if not downright depressed, by the Conservative Party's ascension to the seat of government. They're also equally, if not more, shocked that Tories did so with the support of the Liberal Democrats. A progressive party, they feel, got into bed with the right-wing nutters that ruined this country.
On the day before polling in the 2010 UK General Election, Labour's use contextually targeted paid search ads. Subliminal messaging? It's certainly subtler than the Tories plans to takeover the YouTube homepage with online advertsingin on the day of voting.
The day before polling day, a UK general election poll on LinkedIn highlights some potentially interesting trends in the voting preferences of UK LinkedIn users...
We could fix an awful lot in politics and in political debate if we just acknowledged our own inbred biases, the ones we got from our parents and from our environment.
In this piece, I discuss a way around that by linking party affiliation with genealogy and letting the ideas, beliefs and issues stand on their own.
"I looked into Europe's educational system, which you might say is not as good as in the U.S., but you would only say that if you really are ignorant. Children abroad must learn a second language from kindergarten on up. That language could be French, German, Spanish, or all three, but they must learn at least one. Our children do not even begin to think about a second language until high school, which is late. Learning a language in the formative years has many advantages over learning later such as retention and that second language becoming as second nat
Last month a gay couple were turned away from a B&B run by a Christian couple as reported in the Guardian, well now Conservative MP Chris Grayling has defended this and is in fact urging other B& B owners to do exactly the same, but not hotel owners!
Why do people turn to tactical voting instead of voting for the policies they believe in (or the party that represents the closest match). With a general election approaching the UK, surely policies should be at the fore front of people’s decisions?
But what policies matter? What do the political parties stand and who do they represent? Well there's a new online tool to help you wade through the quagmire of spin and find out what each parties policies are on a range of important issues. Includes policies from Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Green, UKIP and BNP.
Should it be taxed or not? If so by how much? Do you think that all people have the right to pass their surplus cash onto friends and family or do you believe in complete equality of opportunity i.e. that everyone should start from a roughly level playing field and therefore achieve based solely on ability?
Yes, you did read correctly, 4 SNP MSPs (Jamie Hepburn, Bill Kidd, Alasdair Allan and Bill Wilson) and 1 Labour MSP (Elaine Smith) have lost the plot it seems or just gone Caracas and are praising Venezuelan President Huga Chavez.
Earlier this month, the Wiesel Foundation for Humanity published, as an advertisement, an open letter to the President of the United States and the leaders of France, Russia, Britain and Germany, a letter carried by the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The issue eliciting the need for such a public letter, essentially a letter written to the world, stood boldly as a heading: “How Long Can We Stand Idly By And Watch The Scandal In Iran Unfold?”
