Month: November 2018

“The success of the concept of Coiste an Asgard was certainly evident on my short visit on board. At a time when so much derisory comment is made about youth (in all countries) here is one organisation with a constructive approach.” (Link page

“However there is plenty of good subsidised food on the tables in the Tynwald canteen!” Manx Radio reports that a Tynwald committee will be considering evidence about poverty news that leaves me is despair that government and politicians will ever tackle the issue

‘You need to be quite aggressive to have a crack at naval officers and nuclear engineers, ‘ (John Large quote ‘New Civil Engineer’ Jan 2002) I was saddened to read earlier this month of the death of Consultant Engineer John Large a fervent

The ‘Mr Smooth’ of French politics Emmanuel Macron found himself under fire over the actions of the state during a meeting in Brussels. In this video from the Irish Times pages students unfurl a banner saying the French government has blood stained hands.

A factory in Scotland that we condemned in 2016 for manufacturing components for so called ‘smart bombs’ used by Saudi Arabia against the civilians in Yemen is to be targeted by protesters seeking its closure. In 2016 we highlighted the role of the

“Most of the objects which ultimately do find their way to the shore are harmless and a considerable source of pleasure to children.” (John Dunster conference speech Geneva 1958) John Dunster was a Scientist at Winscale around at the time of the 1957

I touched the other day in a post on the dumping of nuclear waste via the Sellafield outfall pipe as part of the discharges that went on in a fairly unregulated manner for the first twenty five years after Windscale (Sellafield) was opened.

We reported the story of the controversy caused in Brittany by the attempt of Jean-Christophe and Lydia Bernard who wanted to register Frank their son with the registry in Quimper but because they used the Breton spelling Fañch and the letter as a

As well as the pollution caused by background radiation levels of waste from Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility discharged over six decades there is the other and more dangerous potential of radioactively contaminated particles. Sellafield carries out beach monitoring on the English side of

I mentioned the environmental ‘elephant in the room’ Sellafield the other day and how I periodically ‘enriched my days’ by wading through ONR reports on British nuclear facilities. In the attached video clip issued on Wednesday ONRs Deputy Chief Inspector. Dr Mina Golshan.