"The adversarial trial system has been shown inadequate to deal with complex, and indeed developing, scientific data in Lucy Letby's trials. Procedure has triumphed over the serious search for the truth. Yet there is also the question as to whether existing legal procedures were followed over testing expert witnesses."Timothy Bradshaw claims that Lucy Letby has been betrayed by a legal system that can't handle scientific evidence. Ian Martin is not impressed by Boris Johnson's Unleashed: "On the basis of this magnum opus, satirists who'd pointed their lances at some imaginary political giant were in fact tilting at a windbag." Jamie ...
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Volunteers turn out to help plant new Market Harborough park - and the local Tories are appalled
My old friend Phil Knowles, the Lib Dem leader of the council, was spot on his reply to this nonsense: It's a shame that local Tory councillors won't be coming down to Market Harborough's new community led green space because they think it's "silly", or that they don't like the residents suggestion of calling it a Friendship Park. As it sounds like they could do with a little friendship, and hopefully they'll change their minds. Luckily the local community, who championed this project, have warmly received the invitation to help be apart of it's success. "It's rather sad that involving ...
Butterfly takes wing freshly from the chrysalis; virgin in its flight
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRefLab leadFieldwork Techne 24% (-1) 29% (+1) 13% (nc) 7% (nc) 19% (nc) 5% 23-24/10 GB Opinium 24% (nc) 31% (nc) 12% (+1) 8% (nc) 20% ...
From Dundee's Sustainability & Climate Change Officer : Dundee needs your support to win the #OnePlanetCityChallenge!Dundee was nominated as the only Scottish city to participate in WWF's #WeLoveCities Challenge. We Love Cities is a global campaign that allows people to show their support for sustainable urban development by voting, engaging with and celebrating their city's sustainability and climate action plans. Dundee is embracing the climate challenge with a bold action plan that aims to transition our beautiful city to a green, net-zero, and climate-resilient future by 2045.Here's how we're making it happen :🏠 Energy Efficiency: We're supporting retrofit programmes to ...
The Guardian reports on the views of industry representatives that Brexit has added up to £370m a year to the price of power supplies from Europe, meaning that the total energy costs of leaving the EU could amount to £10bn by the end of the decade: Before Brexit, the UK procured power through the EU's internal electricity market, which brought together bids and offers in a system known as "single day-ahead coupling", using an algorithm to optimise pricing and flows. The UK imports and exports electricity through interconnectors - huge undersea cables - to Norway, Ireland, France, Belgium, Denmark and ...
