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Meteorologists believe that changes to the Atlantic jet stream could alter the pattern of winds over the next 40 years and leave much of the nation’s growing army of power-generating turbines becalmed Wind speeds in Britain have dropped 20% since 2008 due to the jet stream changing. Is this a long-term change or just [...] My friend John Wight in Britain on the recent student protests. Gone are the days when protest as a purely cathartic experience is enough. Informed by the recent history of the antiwar and other movements, which marched peacefully until blue in the face and whose reward was to be ignored by the establishment and eventually [...] The limo of Prince Charles and wife Camilla Parker was attacked. Police on horseback charge students Derek Wall I am the first member of my family to go to university, due to the Liberal Democrats I am the last. I am so angry. Ah well more money for next banker’s bailout. Proud [...] This is brilliant, savagely funny too. “Clegg has lied so much his nose is bigger than Pinnochio’s… [The protesters were] supposed to march in line like in the 2003 anti-war demos. They’re not supposed to resist! The liberals were supposed to cover our arses, give us a ‘progressive edge’, make us less nasty. [...] The Guardian has coverage auto-updated every minute. Harry’s Place has extensive links to local protests, adding: I don’t expect Nick Clegg ever expected to see himself depicted like this Lenin’s Tomb Latest news says 600 students have walked out of Leeds Uni, hundreds of pupils have walked out Allerton Grange secondary school in [...] At this point, my best guess is that when push comes to shove in Europe, the left will actually win in most nations. They aren’t wimps, they are willing to fight, they are willing to clash hard with the cops and they are willing to directly attack the interests of the ruling class. Unlike in [...] Lenin’s Tomb on the storming of a Tory HQ yesterday by students and the occupation today of Manchster University. Some will inevitably try to paint imaginative, militant action as ‘violent’. So let me say this about the ‘violence’ yesterday. I’m not frightened by the media’s hysteria, or browbeaten by the servile centre-left that wants to [...] It came up in Hansard (the minutes of the House of Lords) on Monday. Or is trying to buy the UK government. I swear to God I am not making this up. Here’s the transcript. Essentially, Lord James said that he had been approached by “Foundation X”: “For the past 20 weeks I have been [...] The British government continues to refuse to negotiate sovereignty of the islands, as British governments have continuously, citing the democratic rights of the 3,000 British citizens who currently inhabit them. Of course, the government’s determination to hold onto the Falklands would have nothing to do with the small matter of oil exploration, just begun [...] For counter terrorism read reaction The British government’s new counter terrorism strategy was unveiled yesterday accompanied by the usual fanfare of publicity, designed to remind us that terrorists are lurking under the bed and so best allow further erosion of our civil liberties, reminding too those who may be prone to acts of terror – [...] |  | ||||
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