19 October 2008

Sunday Reading

The Observer has a must-read article on Britain's wind industry.

The US helps India's civilian nuclear programme ... so, China helps Pakistan.

News just in ... dirty surgical equipment is bad.

Martii Ahtisaari, the Finnish winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, wants to focus next on global youth unemployment. Here in Britain, 56 000 of the 164 000 who lost their jobs between June and August of 2008 were under 25. That rise of 56 000 is the biggest since youth unemployment started to be measured in 1992. And, amongst youth in education, they are increasingly reliant on EMA grants to make a go of it.

Seymour Hersh: "It was stunning to me how many good, rational people - people I respect - supported going into war in Iraq. And it was stunning to me how many people thought you could go to war against an idea."

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