If you don't live around North London you may have escaped the mounting furore that has erupted over the the City of London Corporation's management of Hampstead Heath. Competent and caring custodians of the heath, they would have us believe – yet they are currently behaving …
Politics
Sugar success
George Osborne's surprise new sugar tax has been greeted with the predictable chorus of glad cries from health campaigners, howls of derision from industry and healthy scepticism from commentators. But whatever the chancellor's motives (and such is the repute in which he is held …
Please do go to Jordan – it is safe – and amazing…..
‘Jordan…. You’re not going to Jordan, are you? Is it safe?’ A question that is asked all too often of prospective tourists. And a question that, along with the thousands of refugees massed on the border with Syria, is creating havoc in the Jordanian economy. In a country so …
Google’s Loon project – and further musings on electromagnetic sensitivity
One of the more Star Wars-y projects gathering pace in 2016 must be the Google Loon project – an attempt to encircle the southern hemisphere with a ring of high flying balloons. Using 4G, the balloons will beam internet access down to those living in remote regions below who …
The mess that is ‘may contain’
Many of you will have filled in our 'may contain' survey a few weeks ago and I promised both to let you know the results – and to explain why it was that we were doing the survey. So a few results first: When you were asked what you thought when faced with a ‘may contain …