After years of suffering rocket attacks from the Gaza strip, Israeli officials have put in place a plan to disrupt the electricity supply to Gaza, hoping this will prove a lever to restrain Palestinian terrorism groups.
The trouble is, as shown in Iraq where services like electricity have been unreliable for years, many areas only have a few hours [...]

That was the astounding figure given in Monday’s BBC Newsnight. African dictators have squirrelled away eight hundred billion dollars in Swiss bank accounts and other schemes in case they need pensions after they are booted out of office. (Few African leaders voluntarily leave office).
This huge sum, if Newsnight is correct, implies a conspiracy almost as big [...]

No wonder the Chinese don’t give a nickel for intellectual property rights or copyright laws when you have scientists like Craig Venter trying to claim ownership of DNA patents. Critics on Newsnight rightly labelled Venter as a ‘land grabber’, involved in a conspiracy to deny others the possibility of using human DNA technologies.
Those who suspect viruses like [...]

Who pays the piper calls the tune. If your research budget depends on money from a climate change lobby, then be careful the results you come up with support the belief of your sponsor, or it’s out the door for you.
Never has such an important topic as climate change been hijacked by lobby groups in [...]

Blooming Doug and Dave, how could they ruin a thriving UK cottage industry by accepting 30 pieces of silver from the Sun to fake a crop circle? Magazines, videos and tours were booming in the 1990’s, and now many crop circle investigators, some really trying to be scientific, bury their heads in the sand and [...]

Shame that the triumphal return of Benazir Bhutto was marred by possible Taleban extremism. Pakistan is teetering on the edge of going the way of Afghanistan, with religious zealots, like a Spanish Inquisition from the 17th century, thinking that God rewards murderers.
Of course Bhutto has many enemies from political parties within Pakistan, her father was [...]