Small briefs for a big world
News today of three further UK government advisors resigning in the wake of the sacking of Professor David Nutt. The advisors, Dr John Marsden, Dr Ian Ragan and Dr Simon Campbell, all quit the UK’s Advisory Council for the Misuse
With the recent outbreak of Swine fever / Mexican flu our title Pocket Issue, Pandemics is getting a lot of interest. Recently reviewed in The Evening Standard (London) as “the book to read when you get home”, commenting that “It’s
In the news this week, what civil liberties groups are calling the ‘snoopers’s charter’. A proposal by the UK government to monitor and even store our contact information from social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Whilst much of
It’s icy cold, we’re fat from too many mince pies, the kids have just gone back to school and we’ve dispatched the last of the Christmas wrapping paper to the recycling box. Picking up a paper for the first time
The government is cutting down on the promotion of cheap alcohol, in a bid to curb irresponsible drinking. Promotions like ‘all you can drink for £10’ and ‘women drink free’ are to go in the Queens Speech, although supermarkets will
Paul Cruickshank – Author of Pocket Issue, Al Qaeda: the current threat – wrote yesterday in The Guardian about the likely origin of the Mumbai terrorists. Many reporters claim that some of the attackers have British roots. Cruickshank traces the
Will a new administration in the White House herald a change of policy in Washington re military strikes against terrorist bases outside of combat zones, as seen in both Pakistan and Syria in the last few weeks? Our author Paul
Pocket Issue’s new title Al Qaeda: the current threat, is released this month at what appears to be a timely moment, with the current threat from Al Qaeda being described this week as ‘huge’. The following post comes from the
Reading the business pages these days is heady stuff, and in particular today, which the BBC’s Robert Peston labels the worst of all days. His list of banks and insurance businesses collapsing into financial trouble of the last few days
It’s a well documented fact that food prices have been soaring in recent months. Latest news is that the price of pork sausages has risen by 40 per cent in the past year, and the price of bacon has almost