By John Pickard It is sometimes interesting to step aside from the hurly-burly of politics and to read and think about other, more peripheral issues.
Category: Science & Environment Archive
By John Pickard The second world climate change conference is taking place in Katowice, Poland, as a sequel to the Paris conference of December 2015.
The nineteenth century Marxist, Karl Kautsky, wrote about the contempt felt for science by any ruling class facing decline and decay: “A class or community
By John Pickard Fracking, like nuclear power, is one of those issues that divides honest trade unionists and good activists in the labour movement. The
By Michael Roberts It is both appropriate and Ironic that, on the day that William Nordhaus should get the Riksbank prize (also called Nobel) for
By Andy Ford, biomedical scientist The New Scientist magazine of 4th August makes sobering reading for anyone concerned about climate change. Some parts of the globe could
by Dave Cartwright, Glasgow Last weekend the multi-national corporation SERCO announced that it would be evicting 300 asylum seekers from properties that it leases in
