Charlie, Carbon, and the Carrots

Prince Charles's footprint has hit the headlines again. He is now officially 'carbon neutral'. Among the first to congratulate the next in line to the throne was Friends of the Earth Director, Tony Juniper: The fact he reduced his carbon emissions by 9% in the last...

Fairford vs Oxford

There's another letter in the TLS today - from Lord Leach of Fairford - criticising (Lord) Bob May (of Oxford)'s Respect the Facts piece:Sir, – As a non-scientist I cannot have read one-hundredth of the number of scientific articles read by Robert May, yet I am...

Third time lucky?

A while ago now, we mentioned that the Royal Society had dropped from its website all reference to 'on the word of no one', the traditional translation of its motto Nullius in Verba, and that its former president, Bob May, had re-translated it as 'respect the facts'....

All Over the Place

More apologies. We are still busier than ever, which makes blogging difficult. We will be back up to speed in about three weeks. Meanwhile, here are a few things to check out. Alexander Cockburn and George Monbiot have been battling it out for a while now over at...