St George's Day

The day has come and gone again, with hardly a flicker of interest.

The Scots, Irish and Welsh all make a fuss over their patron saints, and we should too.

Scottish Indpendence

If you are interested in this and you should be, there is a balanced and excellent review in the lead article of The Economist dated April 14.

This Research will Need More Money

How often do we hear that from scientists often researching topics that are only important to them?  Often the appeal is proceeded by publishing the most extreme results so far.

Nothing to hid

I value my privacy, but also my safety and freedom from harm.  I therefore have no problem with security services keeping an overview of what goes around me.  I have nothing to hid.

If there were another serious terrorist incident, I would bet that the Security Services would be criticised for not spotting and stopping it.  The Civil Liberties people people would take a low profile until the culprits came to trial and then their liberties would have to be protected.  The liberty that they used to kill and maim.