Books to Iraq has continued to get support from all sections of UK political life. Many thanks to those MPs who have signed the early day motion from the following parties:
The Labour Party
The Conservative Party
The SDLP
The SNP
The Liberal Democrats
Plaid Cymru
Democratic Unionist Party.
Books to Iraq has also been in the BMJ.
A UK-Iraqi network hopes to help [...]
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Yesterday there was a fantastic cloud inversion during our walk up Carn an Tuirc and Cairn of Claise.
This post is to be updated.
I am at this precise moment on the summit of Lochnagar at 1155 meters. More later blogging at -4 degrees centigrade is hard work!
Route: Spittal of Glenmuick – Meikle Pap – Cac Carn Beag – Carn a’ Choire Bhoidheach – Loch Dubh – Glas-allt-Shiel – Loch Muick – Spittal of Glenmuick
Route Map.
This turned out to [...]
Route: Cairnwell Ski Centre – Carn Aosda – Carn a Geoidh – Ski Centre.
After a six and a half hour drive we started off, late in the day, through the maze of ski runs and inactive ski lifts to the top of Carn Aosda. It and the neighbouring Munro, The Cairnwell, are not considered [...]
Q: Did you hear about what’s going on in Europe at that time? What are the Germans doing to the Jews?
A: Only when we were in Germany and only towards the very end we started hearing. And what we heard we found was so utterly impossible that any human beings would do that that we [...]
Abu Hamza seems to think that Harold Shipman’s murders may have been religiously inspired:
“Yes. If a doctor kills 250 of his patients there is not a single word about his religion – Dr Shipman I am talking about.â€
If you have information that Harold Shipman was part of a extremist methodist sect dedicated to cleansing Hyde [...]
One of the arguments put forward by the media for giving oxygen to anti-vaccine groups, is that there should be a balance of views. This impartiality is important in the political arena, where the democratic process requires one party’s view to be exposed to criticism from another party. In the case of MMR vaccine, [...]
While preparing a lecture on evidence based medicine, I decided to find an old medical practice that is now considered quackery. Trepanation, the practice of drilling a hole in the skull to expose the brain, seemed to fit the bill, and off I went to find a suitably gory image to keep the students awake. [...]
There was a short discussion about homeopathy in the NHS in the House of Lords today:
Lord Taverne: My Lords, is it not the case that the national homeopathic hospital is publicly funded? Is it not rather a scandal that scarce public funds for the National Health Service should be devoted to something that has no [...]