Will you buy the new Sinclair electric vehicle?

Sir Clive Sinclair has designed a new electric vehicle following his C5 battery model which flopped after it was launched in 1985. It had a top speed of 15 miles per hour and was intended to transform the way people travelled, but ended up losing its inventor £6...
The ghost writer’s life

The ghost writer’s life

I really enjoyed Polanski’s gripping thriller The Ghost which I saw last night. It is about a Blair-like PM accused of war crimes whose life is being written by a ghost writer referred to as the Ghost, played brilliantly by Ewan McGregor; I particularly liked...
Books, shoes and superbugs

Books, shoes and superbugs

It was great to hear from my author friend Richard Havers this afternoon; I needed a breather from the topics I had been working on – shoe prices and EU anti-dumping measures, and “superbugs” and Epidemic Intelligence for the Infection 2009 conference I am...
My message to President Putin

My message to President Putin

I have been brushing up on my Russian since the sinister death of Alexander Litvinenko, who is being buried at a private ceremony in London today, and have composed a message to President Putin urging him to help bring the killers to justice. What will be...
Will Alexander’s killers be found?

Will Alexander’s killers be found?

I was very saddened to hear of the death of exiled Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. My two recent postings about him resulted in much anger from a Russian blogger when I pointed the finger at President Putin and the way he runs his country. I do not believe...
Conservative MEPs take on Spanish fishing fleet

Conservative MEPs take on Spanish fishing fleet

Conservative MEPs led by the erudite Struan Stevenson will take on the might of the Spanish fishing fleet this week to ban the cruel practice of removing fins from the Mediterranean blue shark. The World Conservation Council have announced that blue sharks are now an...