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The debate on whether to replace First Past the Post with AV for elections to the House of Commons certainly seems to be warming up. Both sides are seeking increasing media coverage, bloggers from both sides are debating on the internet, and public interest seems to be growing on the issue. Yet there seems to
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Social networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable energy. In one of the web’s fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace international says at least 500,000 people have now protested at the organisation’s intention to run its giant new data centre mainly on electricity
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Growing imports of Chinese tomatoes in Italy are making it impossible for local producers to maintain quality and could lead to the disappearance of the Italian tomato, said industry representatives, who are considering switching to more lucrative crops.
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The world economy, which was growing at about 3% in per capita terms in the “bad old days” of widespread regulation and punitive taxation for the rich in the 1960s and 70s, has grown at about half that rate in the last three decades. Hmm. Taking a quick look at Angus Maddison’s figures that
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Via. See? Cash-strapped Bulgaria and Romania hoped taxing cigarettes would be an easy way to raise money but the hikes are driving smokers to a growing black market instead. Criminal gangs and impoverished Roma communities near borders with countries where prices are lower — Serbia, Macedonia, Moldova and Ukraine — have taken to smuggling which has wiped out
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Interesting paper (pdf) (via) on whether the growing presence of Chinese nationals in various global conflict zones, mainly on business of one kind or another, will force the development of a power projection capability: according to the author, China currently...
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The number of people dying from cocaine overdoses have increased 15 per cent in just four years raising fresh concerns over the growing prevalence of the drug.
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Six months after the first Scotsman conference, David Lee and David Maddox reveal growing calls for stronger leadership in the form of an elected mayor
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Wales has three times as many women teachers as their male counterparts, according to the General Teaching Council for Wales (CTCW).
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A DEFIANT Kenny MacAskill has insisted he has no regrets over freeing the Lockerbie bomber, amid growing warnings from figures within and outwith his party that his momentous
submitted by Scotsman on 20th Aug 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
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