Alan - Instablogs
Oct 13 2008
This is just the craziest thing I ever heard. Politics where you can actually have politicians who don’t believe in god, and where you can talk about removing the privileged status of religion from the legislative body, and where all the major...
Oct 11 2008
In the past decade, announcements of Jupiter-size planets have become commonplace; about 300 of them have been found so far. In 2005, however, with the help of improved detection software, Marcy’s team turned up something else orbiting Gliese...
Oct 8 2008
Apple promised big things for the launch of iTunes 8 last September, and what did we get? A music recommendation engine and another layer of UI glossiness in the Grid view. Genius? Not really.
Aug 28 2008
Green taxes are far higher than is necessary to offset the cost of Britain’s carbon emissions, a pressure group has claimed.
Jun 3 2008
The Italian and U.N. hosts of a U.N. crisis summit on rising food prices on Monday left the presidents of Zimbabwe and Iran off the guest list of a ceremonial dinner for the leaders attending the meeting.Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is able to...
May 16 2008
After two decades of being mocked as the “toothless one”, Habiba Anhasan used her first earnings this week to buy a set of dentures. Until a year ago, the £130 price of the false teeth would have been only a dream for a woman such as Mrs...
May 15 2008
Gordon Brown today insisted that he was the right person to lead Britain through difficult economic times. Responding to a warning from the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, that the economy may be heading into a recession, the prime...
May 15 2008
Seven years ago this winter, Annie Maw’s horse bucked while she was galloping across a field with the Mendip Farmers’ Hunt, of which she had once been joint-master. She sailed over its head, landed heavily in the mud, and broke her back....
May 13 2008
When Luke Kibet won the world marathon championship last August, he became a favorite to achieve what no Kenyan has despite this country’s istance-running brilliance — an Olympic gold medal in the 26.2-mile race. With the Summer Games in...
May 7 2008
Gordon Brown’s woes deepened yesterday when the former cabinet minister Charles Clarke mounted a strong attack on his leadership and demanded an urgent change of course. Mr Clarke said the Prime Minister should stop using “bullying”...