In another of his informative videos, Alan Robertshaw looks at how Lucy Letby's case now stands and at the role of the expert witness more generally.
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Welcome to the 147th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which looks at what Channel 4's press office told me after last week's edition. Would they release the poll data details? Would they be able to justify their Chief Executive's speech? Read on to find out what they said – including how part of Channel 4's case rests on a one percentage point difference between generations in Bulgaria. Find out more by reading this edition of The Week in Polls here, ...
Earlier this week, we published Jenni Lang's Reply to the Toast to the lassies given at the Edinburgh South Burns Supper. We said we'd put up Andy Wiliamson's original toast to which she was replying when we got it. So here it is. Enjoy. "Thank you everyone for such a wonderful evening. Thank you to Rebecca for organising and for the team working for providing such wonderful service. So it has fallen to me to give the Toast to the Lassies this evening. I have to start with a confession. I am actually from England. That's not the confession. The ...
If their staff have correctly reported him Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy seems more concerned by the likely shift of soft power to China caused by President Trump's dramatic closure of the US Overseas Aid Programme (USAid) than the immediate practical consequences on the individuals who are to lose aid supplies and services. It wold be nice to think that your government's first thought went to 10 000 or so individuals who still die every day of hunger, the 1 000 daily toll of children under five who die of malaria and the 900 plus who die each day of ...
Sun 9th
13:24
The Electron Transport Chain, DNA and aging - does evolution intentionally expose the Electron Trans...
The Electron Transport Chain has five complexes. These are comprised of a number of subunits. What I find particularly interesting is that some of the proteins are generated via nuclear DNA and some of the proteins are generated via mitochondrial DNA. Most of the ROS (that damages mtDNA) is generated by Complexes 1 and 3. Complex 1 has 45 subunits in humans, but in fact only 7 of those (ND1,
BBC News hops away with out Headline of the Day Award.
It's the summer of 1977. England are regaining the Ashes under Mike Brearley, and Songs from the Wood by Jethro Tull is the best album I know or can imagine. When I play it loudly at night with my bedroom windows open, I can hear a pair of class 20s on the Market Harborough to Northampton line. They're slogging up the bank to Great Oxendon with a coal train bound for London. Yes, it was all a long time ago. Over the years I must have featured most of the tracks on Songs from the Wood here, but not this ...
This is the speech Ed should have made on the EU Hats off to Ed Davey for calling for an EU/UK customs union. Last month's call rightly attracted media attention, and amounts to the first step towards the Lib Dems re-establishing ourselves as Britain's most pro-European party. As a signatory to the Guardian letter in November 2023 which called on the party leadership to make a clearer statement about what the Lib Dems stand for, I give credit to Ed for his EU speech. But he should have gone much further, and framed our party's position differently. That may sound ...
Germany Germany's Friedrich Merz is gambling big. The leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is gambling with the upcoming elections, his political career, his country's future and Europe's future. He is gambling that by opening—ever so slightly—the door to the German far-right that he will be able to slam it shut again after winning elections on February 23. Ever since the end of the Second World War the mainstream political parties have maintained a firewall (or "Brandmauer") between themselves and any far-right, neo-Nazi party that might undermine the political consensus that Germany maintain a sense of contrition for ...
The Mirror reports that Labour has launched adverts boasting about deporting migrants using the colour and branding of Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, failing to include any iconic Labour red nor the red Labour rose logo. The paper says that instead the ads use the turquoise blue - and the straight-edged font - of Reform UK: One Facebook page set up under Reform UK's colours is the UK Migration Updates, which is run for by the Yorkshire and Humber Labour party. It posts stories and updates celebrating Labour's deportation figures. The account appears to have become active at the start ...
A great historic photograph of the Sinderins.
