F24ENG are reporting that the Ukraine funding vote will be held in the US House of Representatives on Friday, with the Senate's funding bill being divided in four bills that will be voted on sep… (View Post)

The article describes librarians as among the most trusted professionals, but they are also one of the least scrutinized professions. Librarians and library services can pretty much do what they like… (View Post)

A classic example of this phenomenon is John B. Goodenough, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 at the age of about 96. He did research into lithium ion batteries in the 1970s and 80s at O… (View Post)

The reality is now that that the UK has left the West, and it is now in the same boat as Russia and China in the sense that it is in thrall to a political ideology - Brexit - that overpowers economic… (View Post)

I watched part of Question Time last night, unusually. There were several questions from the audience about the economic and trading effects of Brexit. The Conservative and Labour politicians did not… (View Post)