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The Claim “We will scrap Labour’s target of [getting] 1.6% [of the UK’s electricity from decentralised sources] by 2020 and significantly raise the level of ambition for decentralised energy in the UK by 2020 and beyond.” Conservative party policy document, seen by Channel 4 News FactCheck Cathy Newman checks it out “Decentralised” energy is the…
The news that Israel has reprimanded two high-ranking soldiers for authorising an artiellery attack which hit a UN compound during last year’s Gaza conflict is a rare official admission of wrongdoing, blogs Jonathan Rugman
As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon talks about the establishment of a Commission of Experts to advise on alleged violations of human rights in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Jonathan Miller notes that there is no statute of limitations when it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Burning coal is the cheapest way America makes electricity but it is dirty. Sarah Smith visits the coal mining heartland of West Virginia and finds a way of life under threat.
There is really very little to actually report when you cover Sri Lanka. That sounds ridiculous, but let me qualify myself: there is no real, first hand information or experience that you can lay your hands on. It’s all potentially tainted somehow. You spend your time explaining that the other side disagrees with the other…
Jon Snow
There is something shocking about seeing yourself as your mother, peering out of a national daily. Yes, folks. I have been cross-dressing. Again. Actually, I think I last cross-dressed when I was 16 and appearing in Ring Round the Moon, by Jean Anouilh, at school.
Jon Snow
Make no mistake, we shall not see this again in our lifetime outside war. By 7.00am there were already 200,000 people on the Washington Mall. That’s about the number that represents a decent turnout for any other inauguration. I have traversed from Union Station to Judiciary Square, out along 4th to D and E, to…