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I think it is on work computers, yes. The should be working, but it’s still a ridiculous and unfair judgement on what they can and can’t see.
Frontline local authority workers mostly work hard and conscientiously, it’s their overpaid and unaccountable senior managers that play the system. Local authorities are overdue for a few hard-hitting investiagtions into all the conferences, irrelevant training and fact-finding tours enjoyed by senior managers at the expense or council tax payers.
A heroic act. But did he reckon he was likely to die alongside his mates anyway and so in the limited time available he made the split second decision? Was this a ‘well, there’s nothing to lose by giving this a try’ situation? However, he deserves the commendation for bravery and lateral thinking.
If ‘chav’ is banned, then surely words like ‘toff’ or ‘yokel’, which are equally insulting, should also be banned.
Why send men to work shifts in squalid and dangerous conditions underground when a combination of renewable energy resources and increased energy efficiency could meet most of our needs. A Severn barrage alone could provide 7% of all our electricity, another one across Morecambe Bay probably a similar amount. The planned major offshore windfarms could make a sufficient contribution – the wind is usually blowing somewhere!
Then there are free-standing tidal flow turbines and generators that use wave power (like the Pelamis device). These could be placed within offshore windfarms, so they would not use up extra sea space. There is also a lot of scope for small scale hydro-electric river-flow turbines.Then there is solar energy. Photovoltaic roof panels to generate electricity, or solar-thermal panels to heat water. Home-scale wind turbines are often disappointing. But scientists are working on supercapacitors that can store energy more efficently than battereries. Perhaps these would be able to store surplus energy developed by wind power at night.
OK, so men will have to work in dangerous conditions installing and maintaining offshore windfarms – maybe, but nothing’s perfect.
If we increase coal production, what do we do with the coal? Burn it on fires (smoke), coal-fired power stations? Steam locomotives (very inefficient) or process coal to make roadfuel?
There might be more scope for some coal-fired power stations if adequate emission control technology is fitted – but no great return to the sooty, smoggy, chuffy, bronchitic, grimy coal age!
Arthur Scargill was right every word it was his style that was wrong We shouldnt have gone on strike then and we certainly shouldnt have gone back
Scargill was a megalomaniac crypto-communist. He declared himself life-president of the NUM. There was something a bit Mugabesque about him.
Margaret Thatcher had an ally in the destruction of our coal industry, remember…..
called Arthur Scargill. He certainly won’t get a state funeral, except perhaps in North Korea.The rest of the world plays as nations – France, India, Germany, Ireland, USA etc.
We should play international sports as Great Britain, or UK if including Northern Ireland.
Perhaps there should be regional sports to, so that England and Scotland can compete against Provence, Uta Pradesh, Bavaria, Leinster or Texas!
I’m open minded about people’s sexuality or their desire to have ‘gender reassignment’. I’m not against gay marriages. But where children are involved, they inevitably become part of a social experiment. I hope the baby grows up happily. If the parents are loving and normal in all other respects of their daily life apart from the obvious strangeness, then I guess they’ll be OK. Sadly, bullying by other children often has more to do with the nature of the child’s personality than any abnormality in their background. That is just used as an excuse. I was bullied at school when I was young, because I was quiet, bad at sports and a bit fat. But the ringleader of the bullying was very ugly and very fat. Another boy was bullied because he was dislexic but the fat bully was much stupider than the dislexic one.
I think I’m talking about something vaguely mid-way between the technical and anectdotal definitions of ‘recession’.
If people waste less food, then, in turn, they’ll buy less in the first place and that will only add to the gathering pace of the recession. I thought Brown knew a bit about economics!!!
