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There's a difference between what's inevitable and what's merely probable.

It's not the clearest map in the world but it looks like Bangladesh is at medium risk of water shortage, which seems a little unlikely given that this is the risk level for Saudi Arabia. But it's a pr ...

In order to prevent industry relocating to more lax regulatory environments, it seems that the 20% cuts won't apply to "energy intensive industries" (so nothing important then) if international agreem ...

Report about this on BBC Radio 4 yesterday. You can listen to it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/worldtonight/ram/worldtonight_wheat_20080313.ram

Britain has just decided to build its first coal-fired power station in 25 years and the government is pushing through a fairly healthy expansion of the country's airports so seeing would very definit ...

You're describing the country in which I live. I can see with my own eyes what is happening. I read the papers. I watch the news. I walk about the streets. I talk to other people who live here. I work ...

Hmm. So in 40 years time, Norway will be supporting a Muslim population of 8 million, when its current total population is only 4.5 million. Looking at the graph, it's calculated on a - frankly laugha ...

Huh? What kind of a stupid question is that? In my earlier post I made a reference to positive and negative freedoms; you don't have to be Immanuel farking Kant to work out which one of these I believ ...

And I've already explained that this is because their rights are subordinated to a greater right. Everybody - or at least every society - has to choose a hierarchy of rights; this is mine. And - again ...

Speech is a matter of words and art. It doesn't involves fists. Thats why freedom of speech is so valuable.

The quotation was not - and is not - meant literally. Rather, it showed that there are ...

That's fair enough. I believe that it is not in everyone's best interests for unlimited freedom of speech to reign and you do but as the late great Isaiah Berlin said, "Your freedom to swing your fist ...

The UK had a real empire, with real colonies, not the least of which the 13 colonies in north america which broke away and became the US. The US does not. That's why I reject the notion that the US is ...

No, you missed my point. It's not about Islam; this attitude applies equally to racist material or any other material which has a similar effect. It's nothing to do with Muslims and everything to do w ...

I can't see America going gently. It has a vast military which has been used for a lot more trivial concerns than national survival and unfortunately the momentum of violence will, I'm sure, not dissi ...

Just today, the British government has said that it supports the building of new coal fired power stations, and this from a government that at least pretends to be concerned about climate change. The ...