Climax, bang or whimper?
A quick update with the results of yesterday's voting in this district.
| | Previous seats
| Change
| 2007 seats
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| Conservative | 17 | +9 | 26 |
Liberal Democrat
| 18 | -5 | 14 |
| Other | 6 | -2 | 4 |
| Labour | 3 | -3 | 0 |
As you can see, whatever the voters did want, they didn't appear to want Labour. Assuming, of course, that they were given the option. In my ward, the choice was limited to 2 Conservative and 2 Labour candidates: pick any two.
Note to the Lib Dems: you can't win a seat if you don't put up a candidate...
Posted by racingsnake
@ 05:03 PM GMT+00:00
Climate Change and middle-class angst
This is what I was going to blog earlier. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just published the third of its current global assessment reports, as part of the programme it has been undertaking since 1990.
According to this report and graphic, they look at seven key areas in which carbon emissions could be reduced. What interests me as a consumer is that, assuming one has some control over one's own domestic heating and insulation, "Buildings" is the category which offers the most scope for reduction - while "Travel" (the first-world bugbear of the day) comes a lowly sixth out of seven.
Indeed, only 3 out of 7 categories look like ones in which the consumer can play a direct part (buildings, travel and waste), and in each of those the consumer is far from the only actor. It would be interesting to see if the full report breaks those categories down further into "domestic" and "industrial".
If the Bank Holiday weather stays fair in the UK, sales of spring barbecues will rocket and the prospects of a carbon-neutral weekend will take a beating. But then, I didn't see an IPCC category for "Barbecues", so I guess we're in the clear.
Posted by racingsnake
@ 02:59 PM GMT+00:00
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This is not what I was going to blog...
... but we'll return later to the topic of climate change.
In the meantime, another request for help - and a link to something for you to read over the Bank Holiday weekend.
First, the request for help: can anyone help me trace an inaccurately-remembered quotation? I can't remember who said it or their exact words, but the gist of it was this:
"Sloppy writing does not necessarily denote poor expression. It may be perfectly accurate expression of sloppy thinking."
Anyone out there recognise it?
Second (and the connection will become obvious), here's a link to an article by the admirable Andrew Marr. It is rather too long for the average modern attention-span - but then, you lot aren't average ;^)
Posted by racingsnake
@ 12:18 PM GMT+00:00
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