This paper (pdf) is hard to find! It is also one of those infuriating pdf files which are totally botched and take forever to print. I ended up scraping off the text and printing it from a text editor. The story is that KPMG commissioned AF-Mercados UK, which is apparently part of the Swiss AF-Consult [...]
Science is a human endeavour. Its practitioners are human with all their foibles and weaknesses. That is part of the miracle that is science. Despite such difficulties, the pursuit of science has succeeded in reaching a stable and useful body of knowledge which has enormously enhanced humankind’s mastery of the planet. I have lost track [...]
Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has been much in the news over the last week. Hackers broke into the CRU servers and downloaded a large number of emails and other documents. When I was writing this, a zipped 60MB file containing the stolen material was still [...]
There was a particularly good article on Tony Blair in the Sunday Times yesterday. For those who have not been paying attention, Blair’s main activity since being forced to resign as prime minister has been making money. Thanks mainly to the apparently inexhaustible desire of the US rich to pay to rub shoulders with the [...]
