ABSTRACT: A new method is proposed for exploring the amplification of the atmosphere with respect to the surface. The method, which I call "temporal evolution", is shown to reveal the change in amplification with time. In addition, the method shows which of the atmospheric datasets are similar and which are dissimilar. The method is used

Gordon Brown was accused of gesture politics yesterday after intervening to reduce Whitehall severance payments by £500million and to curb senior officials’ pay. The Prime Minister announced that the current redundancy packages, which give civil servants three times their annual salary if they lose their jobs, will be abolished. …. Whitehall sources admitted that the Prime Ministe...

I read the report on terrible fate of Baby P this morning, it felt like a stone in my stomach. As a parent I find it very difficult reading about things like this. The catalogue of failure on the part of so many people makes me deeply angry and the unwillingness of any of them to take responsibility makes me sick. Watching the Prime Minister try to play politics with this issue was one of the

Asked about the Prime Minister s reaction to a report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research on the estimates of monthly GDP, the PMS said that the Prime Minister felt that there were signs that the sometimes controversial action the Government had taken, such as the cut in VAT, the action we took to stabilise banks so they could lend more, the action we took to stop temporary...

The prime minister has clashed with public accounts committee chairman Edward Leigh over the delivery of Whitehall efficiency savings.

Asked who would be running the Government when the Prime Minister was on holiday, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister would be in charge of the Government over the summer, as would normally be the case. Put that Alastair Darling would be in charge when the Prime Minister was away, the PMS said that the Prime Minister was the Prime Minister and would remain in charge, whether he was on holiday ...

The prime minister, Gordon Brown, makes a slip-up in the House of Commons at PMQs

Looks like he’s going for it: Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce plans for a new Westminster voting system, the BBC understands. He will unveil an alternative vote system to choose MPs to replace the first past the post method,...

Budget cuts in Whitehall to restore the Government's finances could hamper Britain's plans to help fragile nations emerging from war and conflict, a report warned today.

WHEN the Prime Minister makes a fundamental error about the way the Assembly Government is funded and the First Minister inadvertently lets a rather large cat out of the bag, something is clearly amiss.