As part of my work on sleep and health I have been researching why cells deteriorate. There is a lot of good research out there, but I think now it is possible to see a reinforcing vicious circle that is at the core of many deteriorations in health. I think what happens is that an increase in inflammation causes a reduction in NF-κb which causes a reduction in SLC25A1 which reduces the number of
The eleventh of the generally excellent Black Archive series of short books on individual Doctor Who stories addresses The Evil of the Daleks, the last story of the fourth season of the show, first broadcast soon after I was born in 1967, written by David Whitaker and directed by Derek Martinus, both big names in the history of Who. It had seven episodes, but only the second of the seven survives in video. When I first listened to the audio tape of the story, narrated by Fraser Hines from a script by Sue Cowley, I was taking B out of ...
Current 84K, by Claire North Last books finished The Dreamer's Lament, by Benjamin Burford-Jones Scherven, by Erik de Graaf Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir Fireheart Tiger, by Aliette de Bodard The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks, by John Peel After Atlas, by Emma Newman The Evil of the Daleks, by Simon Guerrier Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars, by Terrance Dicks Pyramids of Mars, by Kate Orman Duran Duran: The First Four Years of the Fab Five by Neil Gaiman Next books The Twinkling of an Eye, by Brian Aldiss Lost in ...
Spring Conference takes place online between 11th and 13th March. You can register for that here. There is an accompanying Conference Live event in York run by ALDC on 12th and 13th March and you can register for that here. At the live event, you will be able to watch the online debates and got to numerous social and training events. You can find the agenda here. The main Conference agenda, including the motions has been published. Items up for discussion include: British Sign Language COP 26 follow-up Tackling sleaze in politics Improving air quality Catching up on education post ...
A press release brings the news: St Ives Liberal Democrats have announced that Andrew George has been selected as their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the next general election. Andrew was MP for the area from 1997-2015 and came close to retaking the seat at subsequent elections: in 2017 he missed out by just 312 votes. He was selected by local Lib Dem members after a competitive ballot in the constituency this week. Constituency Chair, Marc Hadley, welcomed the result and congratulated Cllr Thalia Marrington, who also stood for election, on her campaign. He said, "It points to the continued vibrancy ...
There was a silver lining in yesterday's storms as wind energy generated a staggering 42 per cent of all electricity in Great Britain yesterday morning as Storm Eunice battered the coasts nationwide. Credit, where credit is due, to the tremendous ... Continue reading →
The other day I read that someone on social media was connecting Social Liberalism with Socialism when in fact there are at least two major differences that define why Liberals and Socialists are on very different but partly parallel routes. Socialism usually leads to big state intervention and control and it is often marked by authoritarianism too. Social Liberalism, whilst being of the left, is very much not authoritarian and it does not see the state as always being the best/main provider of services, employment etc. Social Liberals see the state as being there to act in balancing our society. ...
Fri, 12:56: RT @archivetvmus71: Happy Birthday Graeme Garden, born this day in 1943. https://t.co/eAjresYc59 Fri, 16:05: RT @DmitryOpines: I don't care how much of a Tankie anti-imperialist you are, Ukraine is not about to launch an attack on Russian backed se... Fri, 17:11: RT @AlexKane221b: Some thoughts on unionism and inter-unionist party voting https://t.co/3tyEcFpZpo Fri, 17:43: Unexpected meeting on the beach with @cleothilde13 ! https://t.co/mfDWjHC2Vj Fri, 18:02: The Flaming Soldier, by Christopher Bryant; The Dreamer's Lament, by Benjamin Burford-Jones https://t.co/Re85OiJsu2 Fri, 20:48: RT @scoutwithnick: Never worked for Ivan Reitman, but I had a pretty surreal encounter with him back in ...
All politicians have a love-hate relationship with the camera, but they are at their most comfortable when photographed sending an important message. It's just that it doesnt normally cost tens of thousands of pounds of public money to get their poimt across. The Independent reports that a Royal Air Force aircraft P-8A Poseidon was flown a distance of more than 330 miles from its base in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland for a photoshoot with Boris Johnson, before flying back. They say that pictures of the prime minister with RAF aircraft made some of the front pages about the Ukraine crisis on ...
Back in the years of New Labour, the government ran an extensive set of pilots to see what might raise turnout in elections. Early voting (letting people vote in person ahead of poling day) came out poorly, a finding that resulted in the idea being dropped, although politicians since have had a habit of overlooking that evidence. But... that evidence is now a couple of decades old. Which is why news of this pilot from Wales is welcome: Bridgend County Borough Council voted in favour of participating in the advance voting pilot scheme this May. A total of seven wards ...
Vladimir Putin would not be poised to crush Ukraine without the tacit support of President Xi Jinping. He received it when he was one of a handful of heads of state who graced the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics with their presence. The statement that followed their meeting pledged mutual protection and stressed their common interests (Taiwan and Ukraine). But it fell short of a blanket approval for a Russian invasion. China has too much to lose if Russia invades Ukraine and destabilises Europe and the US. It has spent many billions on its Belt/Road initiative linking Chinese factories ...
A number of residents have mentioned to me that it would be good to have a public access path right along the river front on Riverside Drive from Discovery Point to the Invergowrie boundary. Currently, the Green Circular walking/cycling route has to veer north, away from the river, immediately west of the Bridgeview Station Restaurant as the path along the front comes to an end just west of there (see photo). This is because of the airport site to the west where there is no path access through at the south end of the airport next to the river. I ...
