While nobody should pretend a Tory lead is a good thing, I’ve not really taken any interest in opinion polls, until I realised how easily Tories wobble when their lead falls into single figures. There are still many Conservatives who fear that Cameron’s moderate rhetoric would translate into a moderate government and are Continue reading
Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science is one of the most important columns published in any newspaper. It almost always lives up to its promise to ‘skewer the enemies of reason’ through the dogged pursuit of those who corruptly misrepresent science, make false claims and mislead the vulnerable, while promoting rigorous evidence based solutions. All Continue reading
Sana Krasikov’s One More Year is a melancholy book of gentle stories of disconnected people. Krasikov’s rounded, complex characters have left their homeland for an America in which they hardly fit or – perhaps worse – have returned to a Russia that has moved on too far, leaving them forgotten and bereft. All Continue reading
I’ve been a quiet blogger of late, but those of you who have taken an interest in the Charity Commission’s investigation of the Atlantic Bridge need not assume that I’ve let things go. You may recall that this organisation consists of at least two entities – a UK-based charity and a US-based charity Continue reading
