"With every personal attack on David Nutt, and every piece of cod science [Alan Johnson has] produced, the home secretary deepens the crisis of mistrust between scientists and the government. The scientific community will not take this lying down—and sources of government advice are likely to dry up."

Andrew Windsor on his completely erroneous self-importance "I was brought up to do this sort of work. It is training, experience and genetics." Let the DTI know what you think about this man becoming the UK's "special" representative for International Trade and Investment on enquiries@ukti.gsi.gov.uk FAO Lord Davies.

Sinister and shocking: "UK border police used anti-terrorist legislation to prevent a British climate change activist from crossing over into mainland Europe"

"The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights."

"Sir, The quarter of a million sufferers of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in this country, who can access no effective NHS treatment for their physical illness, might agree with Mr Hannan in that they would not wish their NHS “care” on anybody. ME has been classified as a physical, neurological illness (alongside MS and Parkinson’s) by the World Health Organisation since 1969. Instead of receiving biomedical treatment, ME sufferers are mixed up with sufferers of other fatigue-causing conditions, including mental ones, under the meaningless umbrella term “chronic fatigue syndrome”. In the UK no other neurological illness is treated solely by psychological interventions. All UK taxpayers’ research and treatment millions have gone to the psychiatric profession that insist, against all scientific evidence, that it is an “abnormal illness belief”. No funding has ever been allotted to developing a diagnostic test. The parliamentary Gibson report recommended that these psychiatrists be investigated for a possible conflict of interest in also working for large insurance companies. This has never been done. Is healthcare here also, in President Obama’s words, “working better for the insurance companies” than for ME sufferers?" Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesonline.co.uk%2Ftol%2Fcomment%2Fletters%2Farticle6798223.ece

We are not safe from these people. Get your hands off. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fnewstopics%2Fpolitics%2Flawandorder%2F6001357%2FA-request-to-snoop-on-public-every-60-seconds.html

"This analysis makes no distinction between income and profit. In our case, profit is zero -- our car parks are self-funding and do not make a surplus." How does it cost 2.5 million pounds per year to run a few square metres of tarmac? Especially as "This NHS Trust accepts no responsibility for anything in this car park." [Insert expletive here] Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fhealth%2Fhealthnews%2F5980346%2FHospitals-make-111-million-from-car-parks.html

It really couldn't be simpler: "En 1713, l'Espagne signe le traité d'Ul­trecht, qui cède à perpétuité Gibraltar aux Britanniques. Or, la péninsule ibérique n'a jamais cessé de revendiquer ce territoire. En 2002, 99 % des 30 000 habitants avaient refusé par référendum une cosouveraineté hispano-anglaise."

"Given the wall-to-wall revelations about taxpayer funded moats and bathplugs, and the new wave of resignations and repayments, we want to exercise a little accountability by reminding readers of the arguments that were used to conceal this information twice in the last two years. These helpful examples should assist mySociety’s friends in keeping an eye out for similar dubious logic in the future."

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