On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:23:41 -0700, wrote:
Last night the BBC TV news had an item about the cuts in the education
budget. The story was that the government had decided to cut millions of
pounds from the last government's proposed education budget, but no
mention was made of the fiscal reasons was given, so it sounded as if
they'd done it for their own reasons. This item was illustrated by a
series of shots showing abandoned school buildings, including some that
looked as if they had suffered mining subsidence and were about to be
pulled down

So , nobody's aware of the fiscal reasons then? Are you really saying the
situation needs to be rehearsed before any news item about cuts ?
Considering that many disagree with the scale and speed of the planned
cuts , it could be argued that this government is indeed doing it for
their own idealogical reasons - that's how I see it.

At the end of Newsnight they showed the front pages of the papers. The
Times led with a report just out saying that the IPCC reports on climate
change (upon which many governments based their climate change policies)
have been shown to be alarmist and biased. Newsnight chose to ignore
this and commented on the picture story instead before moving swiftly
on.

"By and large, the IPCC has delivered a formidable summary of the current
state of knowledge. It's not flawless but it is the best we have, and the
best we can aim for is to further improve it," Nature quoted Maarten
Hajer, director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)
in Bilthoven, which carried out the investigation, as saying.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...-cetera/Dutch-
review-supports-key-warnings-of-IPCC-report/articleshow/6134513.cms