The chief of the UN climate change panel, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, admitted on Wednesday that a mistake in a 2007 report had raised questions about the body's credibility, in an interview with The Guardian.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) landmark Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 said the probability of glaciers in the Himalayas "disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps soone
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Clare Short, the United Kingdom's then-Secretary of State for International Development, appeared before the Iraq Inquiry yesterday, and told the panel that the Cabinet was "misled" about the Iraq War's legality prior to the 2003 invasion. The three-hour session was held in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London's City of Westminster.
Short, an outspoken critic of the war, retired from
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A recent article in the Western Daily Press branded the closure of the RAF base at Lyneham “one of the most wrong-headed decisions ever taken by Ministry of Defence mandarins”. But is it really?
When one considers the recent disasters overseen by that government department, he maybe overstating the gravity of the Lyneham closure.
A secret internal report on the department’s current difficulti
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Next week will see a vote by MPs on proposed changes to the electoral system. The decision that they are being asked to make is about an 'Alternative Vote' system to replace the current First Past the Post method that we use for General Elections. According to the BBC, Labour is divided over the issue, the Tories are against it and the Lib Dems say it doesn't go far enough. But why are their divisions along party lines?
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Tony Blair, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, appeared before the Iraq Inquiry today. He faced six hours of questioning, starting at 6:30 am, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London concerning his role in the 2003 Iraq invasion. During the inquiry, Blair stood by his decision to invade, saying he would make the same decision again.
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In a remarkably frank interview with Iain Dale in 'totalpolitics', Lord Pearson outlines his plans for UKIP.
Perhaps the most innovative measure proposed is his wish to campaign on the single issue of Direct Democracy at the General Election. This does make a lot of sense insofar as it seems more likely that the voters will come out in their, necessary, droves to vote for a party which offers them the right to have some control of the political class - rather than in support of an in/out referendum on our membership of the EU.
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According to official statistics, one in five adults in Britain are out of work. The revealing statistics reveal that there is well over 8 million people who are declared “economically inactive”, which is a record number according to the Office of National Statistics.
People who are labelled as “economically inactive” are students, the retired, parents who stay at home with children, the long t
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An opinion poll in yesterday’s Sunday Mirror shows that 3% of the voters are likely to vote for the BNP and 2% for UKIP. Although the margin for error is high - it is unlikely that all of the parties wishing to take the UK out of the EU, together, will total 10%.
This coupled to the fact Bob Ainsworth apparently let it slip that the General Election is planned for the 6th May, whether this is tr
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