Posts by Peter Norman

The following is an extract from a Daily Telegraph article condemning Labour’s economic record under Blair/Brown: “Not helping Labour’s argument is the string of inept projects which cost the taxpayer billions and ended up on the scrap heap. IT projects were a particular scourge of the New Labour years. In 1998, Labour announced a programme to reform the way the NHS used IT. Predicted to cost £6.2 billion, it ended up...

In the US and China, climate change is the perhaps the most-talked about issue in the political debate. Despite the imminent election in the UK, nobody would say the same there. Source: How we stopped talking about the climate this election — and why thats a problem –...

This is a great initiative led by The Guardian to get major investors to divest their interests in fossil fuel companies.  You should support if you can. Alan Rusbridger: The Gates Foundation is already helping to tackle polio, HIV, malaria, sanitation, and much more… which is why we are asking you in this video to divest from fossil fuels Source: Dear Bill Gates: Will you lead the fight against climate change? | Environment |...

  Tony Vickers in a letter to the Newbury Weekly News today states that my decision to stand will achieve nothing other than to split the opposition. He could never be more wrong. I am standing on more than just an anti-Sandleford ticket, and my decision to stand is because I can appeal cross party, a concept the Lib Dems will never understand as they squat in their party bunker. The Sandleford campaign was never a party issue...