GE-Hitachi Proposes to Burn U.K. Plutonium Stockpile | The Energy Collective
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has proposed to the U.K. government to build an advanced nuclear reactor that would consume the country’s stockpile of surplus plutonium. The technology is called PRISM, which stands for Power Reactor Innovative Small Module. If accepted, it would be very different than the other proposals to process plutonium, including those that [...]
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns – Telegraph
Mouse-tip to EX-SKF for the link: As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately warned that the break-up of the euro, once almost unthinkable, is now increasingly plausible.Diplomats are preparing to help Britons abroad through a banking collapse and even riots arising from the debt crisis.The [...]
London riots 2011: Where were police? Shopkeepers mystified as they’re left defenceless | Mail Online
Angie Bray, MP for Ealing Central and Acton, said policing could be ‘more robust’ but added that it was difficult because officers were ‘damned if they do, damned if they don’t’. Nonsense. They’re damned if they use violence unnecessarily or use a greater force than required, such as in the case of Mr. Tomlinson or [...]
The Commentator – London rioters are the pampered children of the welfare state
What is all the rioting in the UK about? The rioters probably have various motives, but here’s one commenter’s point of view. Click the link below to read the article joe is commenting on. joe get Says: 09 August 2011 This is not a protest against government. It’s a protest in favour of government. More [...]
Initial London riots / UK riots – Google マップ
At-a-glance map of where the rioting is in London. Tho it’s been superceded, apparently, see the links below. M/T to Ryuichi Kino. Initial London riots / UK riotsVerified affected areas from Saturday 6 August until 06:00 Tuesday 9 August.http://james.cridland.net/blog/mapping-the-riots/T HIS IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED. A continually updated map of verified incidents is being run [...]
Mark Wadsworth: Philip Davies and reported speech
A good example of what English Secession wrote the other day, about how emotional appeal usually beats reason: “he wants to exploit the handicapped!!” takes less than 5 seconds to say, whereas explaining why and how the minimum wage creates unemployment takes rather longer (and the other party has to be listening, not always a [...]
The Teens’ speech – UK teens get uplugged, raw and real
Image via CrunchBase Zemanta is a blog plugin that supplies a list of online articles related to the content of one’s blog entry. About one minute after starting to write this blog entry, Zemanta should have enough input to work on and start making suggestions (it also suggests photos). One of Zemanta’s suggested articles was [...]
“The students will not tolerate the teacher having power in the classroom”
This is a reply to a comment kindly left by OldAndrew of Scenes from the Battleground blog, which was a reply to this blog entry. I originally just replied to OldAndrew’s comment in a comment, but my reply got too long for a comment. if students object to the very idea of the teacher being [...]
Scenes from the Battleground – a secondary school teacher reveals the horrors of British classrooms
Image via Wikipedia I’ve just spent the last few hours reading the Scenes from the Battleground blog. Andrew Old is old-school: a believer in teaching facts and knowledge, in the importance of effective discipline, and he does not believe in progressive education. He writes well, with zest and humour. Here’s a good example: someone sent [...]
Work till you drop… it’ll stave off Alzheimer’s!
Image via Wikipedia Well, well. First we get this reminder from the Telegraph (reminding us of who is really working for whom) and then barely two weeks later, this from the BBC: Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests. There’s a [...]
