Singh is a well-known critic of alternative medicine. For the last 18 months his life has been made a misery by a libel suit from the British Chiropractic Association. On 19 April 2008 he wrote in the Guardian:
The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding [...]
SEX DISCRIMINATION LITIGATION
Am I alone if thinking Miss Wimmer’s suit is bizarre? I noticed it in yesterday’s Metro, but failed to keep a copy. The Metro, previously the market leader in the free newspaper market in London, is suffering now that the Standard is free and wisely merged with London Lite in July. However, it [...]
Well, it is time for the cynicism to stop. Right now! Many people seem to think the world’s great corporations are just greedy, self-interested and evil, doing whatever they think they can get away with in pursuit of profit.
Trafigura proves them wrong. It has just given away half its annual profit of £270M as a [...]
On Tuesday 20 April 1999, two pupils at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 fellow pupils and a teacher. They had made a large number of home-made bombs and started by planting two of them, but they failed to detonate. At 11:19am they started shooting with shot [...]
It is still not clear what will come of Rupert Murdoch’s threat to introduce some form of charging for putting his newspaper material on the web. I am sympathetic to his basic point. The difficulty is at least partly the lack of a satisfactory micropayments mechanism on the web. To date newspapers have experimented with [...]
