DURING the Holyrood election campaign of 2007, I had a mug of tea with Tony Blair. Actually, he had the mug and I had water: his caffeine needs were greater than mine. He had

ON 21 May 2007, Australian law firm Slater and Gordon became the first to float on the Australian Stock Exchange. At the end of the first day's trading, the firm had sold

Ian Cowie, really: Regular readers will be familiar with the mathematics because I have been banging on about this since the Budget of March, 2007. Here’s one example of how the poverty trap works. Anyone entitled to claim tax credits – and that includes nearly half of all pensioners – whose annual

A EU-World Bank analysis of the causes of the 2007-2008 food price crisis blames energy prices and financial speculators for the hikes, downplaying the role of biofuels and increased demand in developing countries.

A new (government) school in LA is going to cost a modest $578,000,000.For that kind of money they could get a new tram system, although it probably wouldn't get as far as the port...According to this report:The Los Angeles Unified School District spent $29,780 per student in fiscal year 2007-08. That’s way above the $10,000 as advertised by the school district, and as used in most studies.

There were a couple of by-elections last Thursday which I did not report as I was away: Christchurch Ward, Allerdale BC. Con hold. Con 466 (66.1%, +0.9), LD 131 (18.6%, +18.6), Green 108 (15.3%, +15.3). Swing of 8.9% from Con to LD since 2007. Cossall and Kimberley Ward, Broxtowe. Con hold. Con 757 (37.6%, +8.7), Lab 731 (36.3%, +3.5), LD 524 (26.0%, -3.3). Swing of 2.6% from Lab to Con since 2007...

RUSI has a new paper out by Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham and Gwyn Prins, in which they take on the unenviable task of advocating for Seapower in the UK.  This isn't the team's first crack at the subject, as their paper "The Royal Navy at the Brink" made quite a splash in early 2007.  I say unenviable, as the budget crunch facing much of Europe and the US is putting a good d...

Labour-run Knowsley Council is continuing to pump money in to the Labour Party’s coffers by exhibiting at the party’s conference. The council pays to appear only at the Labour Party’s conferences, ignoring other parties, and is continuing to do so even now that Labour is no longer in government. Back in January 2007 Liberal Democrat

When I started my blog Information Dissemination in 2007, I made the conscious decision to use a pseudonym from my days as an iRCop - Galrahn. The intention behind using a nickname was to focus the readers attention on the content of what was being written, rather than who was doing the writing. The maritime services - and indeed topics like maritime strategy and maritime security - are topics whe...

British councils either rejected or ignored almost half of 68 applications made in 2007 to 2009 by companies wanting to produce power from waste, data show