The Guardian’s expose of DBERR’s response to the EU’s 20% renewable energy target which Tony Blair signed us up to earlier this year is sadly reminiscent of Yes, Minister, replete with calls to reclassify solar panels in Africa and nuclear energy as counting towards our renewable target. The worst thing about all this is that… Continue reading Official response to green energy targets: lie
Category: politics and life
A lack of proportion
A jokey blog post of mine on Friday about a dog with two noses, questioning whether it counted as “intelligent design” resulted in the furious response “Are you planning to purge the Lib Dems of Christians?” This rather extreme reaction is remarkably common. An article posted on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website yesterday by… Continue reading A lack of proportion
iPlayer redux
Talking of unintelligent design, I finally got round to trying to make iPlayer work today. Waste of time. First of all, I tried opening it in Firefox, only to have it inform me that it only works on IE. Then I opened it on IE, only to be told it only works with Media Player,… Continue reading iPlayer redux