27 April 2017 Week In Brief: UK Science NEAR STRIKE: Asteroid 2014 JO 25, more than 1.3 km wide and travelling at 75,000 mph, passed 1.1 million miles from earth last week. It is at least 30 times the mass of the meteor which exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013 causing injuries to more than 1400… Continue reading Issue 102: 2017 04 27: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 14: 2015 08 06: Fading Icons: Belting the Green Belts
6 August 2015 Fading Icons: Belting the Green Belts by J.R.Thomas From the consultative process-ridden, consensual lobbyist-polished, days of the first quarter of the twenty first century it is difficult to imagine the vigour of Clement Attlee and his post-war government. What energy, what dedication, what strength of purpose, what clarity of vision, that first unfettered… Continue reading Issue 14: 2015 08 06: Fading Icons: Belting the Green Belts
Issue3:2015 05 21:In a Pickle
21 May 2015 In a Pickle by R J Thomas Whatever has happened to Eric Pickles? He is, with the greatest respect, hardly a man you could miss. Large, jovial, and free spoken with a disarming northern bluntness, he has been the living embodiment that there is Tory life north of Retford – even if… Continue reading Issue3:2015 05 21:In a Pickle