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More revelations about the antics of Leigh Day re: Iraq
Leigh Day paid an Iraqi fixer £2 million to trawl for "clients"
Makes Dale Vince's £5K or so funding Balcombe non fracking- anti fracking action look a bit lame eh?
Two partners at the firm, Martyn Day and Sapna Malik, and Anna Crowther, a solicitor, are accused of suppressing the evidence.It was estimated that the firm earned up to £10 million ($12.8 million) in fees from their work on Iraq
Question is .... where did that £10 million come from? - one has to assume that there are deeper and more unsettling questions to asked of the people who sanctioned that spend inside the MoJ no?
tomo
Mister Wheeliebin is tub thumping for his 'lerned frendz.
It looks like there might be some seeds of resistance sprouting actually inside the BBC though.... I do so hope that the blobbies nettle Andrew Neil into overt and active hostility ....
tomo
@Supertroll
Graham MacGregor is up there with Dr. Helen Caldicott among the MDs that have lost the plot. There seem to be enough of them that the media can wheel them out to support any particular PoV they choose to boost. I'm guessing that there wasn't much in the way of balance /challenge to be heard?
tomo
Robert Christopher
Further to my previous post
ww.rospa.com/campaigns-fundraising/current/lighter-evenings/
Ross Lea
Ross, "I think the main advantage to staying on GMT +1 all year round is (according to the Royal Society for the prevention of accidents) few road deaths."
That may be so but I remember ROSPA coming up not with a round and believable figure but some ridiculously precise figure (like 396 few deaths or something), which was an early experience for me of "experts" betraying scientific integrity for political ends.
mike fowle
Mark Hodgson
I think the main advantage to staying on GMT +1 all year round is (according to the Royal Society for the prevention of accidents) few road deaths.
Ross Lea
Currently broadcasting on Radio 4, Graham MacGregor , an anti-salt guru. Turned me off in the first few minutes with a statement (later repeated) that no mammal eats salt. Having camped near salt licks in Northern Saskatchewan, I know this to be totally wrong. I saw more wildlife there than anywhere else.
Supertroll
On the GMT debate, I'm happy with the current situation, but with one major criticism - and therefore I would recommend one change. The clocks go back in the last weekend in October - i.e. about 7-8 weeks before the winter solstice - so why do we have to wait until the end of March - i.e. over 3 months after the winter solstice - before they go forward again? I would put them forward in the second weekend in February instead.
The "save the planet brigade" should support that, since people going out to work would be likely to have their home central heating running for an hour less every working day between early February and late March on that basis. That's lots of oil and gas not being used on that basis, plus more usable daylight for most people.
Mark Hodgson
Wikibias
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_as_pseudoscience
Yep they put "Climate Denial" in there
Clearly wrongly as skepticism isn't a theory.