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(Tell me if you see yourself in any of the pictures below and I’d be happy to send you the very large originals. Eleven small images below have not been cropped or modified or optimised in any way—but I can do that for you, and will remove the blurred arms and heads from these images when I get back home!)The following photos were taken by my daughter during the procession on Wednesday 26 March 2008. They show Royal Navy personnel marching up the hill of Thames Street, skirting Windsor Castle: Continue reading 26 March 2008 Royal Navy parade during Sarkozy State Visit to Windsor (draft)…

The train in Spain rolls gainly by the plane

nicely illustrated here is set to supersede its predecessor: Continue reading The train in Spain rolls gainly by the plane…

Telling the 184,000 Americans who live and work in the UK that they can no longer go home for Thanksgiving is likely to damage Britain’s competitiveness every bit as much as restricting business travel.

Continue reading BAA BA chiefs tug your Thanksgiving heartstrings…

Skip ahead to 1:44 (ignore 0:00 through 1:43) on this 5:20 video clip and you will hear a fairly recent, post-Bali at least, AccuWeather interview with James Hansen asking him why he continues to speak out about climate change. He thinks the message has still not got through to most of the public and politicians in America. The trouble is, it is extremely difficult: Continue reading The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close….

John Edwards understands.

Voices remain unheard; he encourages us to speak up and speak out.

Climate change remains taboo. The media are getting away with ignoring this key issue in these 2008 Primaries. Continue reading John Edwards. A voice….

In excited anticipation of a sprinkling of snowflakes tomorrow, we checked the Met Office severe weather warning maps:

Continue reading Expecting a spell of snow: magical, whatever its colour!…

“By far the most important issue is climate change.”

Sir David King - outgoing Chief Scientist

“There are some immense challenges coming and clearly climate change is the biggest. We need to develop science and technology solutions to mitigating this problem as soon as we can“

Professor John Beddington - incoming Chief Scientist

There are different ways of achieving goals, but the overriding number one priority for Her Majesty’s Government does not change as the handover from one chief scientific adviser to another takes place next week. This is not an issue solely for scientists, nor for governments, nor for residents of Britain. It is an issue for each and every one of us to address in our own way, wherever we are, to the best of our ability.

Climate change mission for chief scientist

By Clive Cookson, Science Editor, Financial Times FT.com

Published: December 31 2007 02:10 | Last updated: December 31 2007 02:10

After seven years in one of the most high-pressure jobs in government, Sir David King will on Monday hand over his role as chief scientist to John Beddington, a population biologist at Imperial College London.

Continue reading Climate change challenge tops list of issues - UK Chief Scientific Advisers…

The Independent on Sunday has coverage of Britain’s wind news, and I was so happy to see the headlines today, I actually bought a newspaper! Not disappointed with my purchase, here’s the exclusive on off-shore wind farms, Secretary of State for Business Hutton’s U-turn on nuclear power, and Brown’s insistence that EU targets will be met (so I take back all I said about Gordon earlier this week, after the ‘Ruth Kelly third runway for LHR’ débacle that remains to be defeated …) Continue reading I have news for you: wind high…

Finally! A politician in Britain in addition to David Miliband and the Defra crew gives me hope on climate change—and it’s David Cameron. Party politics don’t matter any more. It should simply be a case of the best man for the job. Cameron should team up with John Ashton of the Foreign Office too, and perhaps we might get some success on the climate front. I have waited patiently to allow our Prime Minister time to ramp up his climate commitment, but it is clear now that the time for waiting has run out and Gordon Brown has lost the plot, if he ever cottoned on to it in the first place. Continue reading Central to next generation success is decentralised microgeneration, and Cameron gets it…

A masterpiece of late Gothic architecture remains almost perfectly intact as the ceiling of the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library Oxford.

Continue reading Late Gothic masterpiece in Oxford: the Divinity School ceiling…