Category: News

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Franchise Follies

The first past the post electoral system depends upon single member constituencies with approximately the same number of electors in each. How to explain then,

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Secure Sentence

Disturbingly, competent computer hackers can break almost any typical alpha numerical IT password in hours if not minutes. Hugely more difficult to crack, it appears,

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Faith Fact

Despite continuing steep declines in church going, especially in northern Europe, 84 per cent of the world’s population is said to be “religious”. Source: Beyond

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Food Crisis? What Crisis?

New figures from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisations shows that the world’s cereal harvest, which provides more than half the calories that humans

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Platform Performance

Irate business type on the telephone: “I’m calling you to find out if you got my text about the email I sent regarding the letter

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Single-Use Syringe Surge

A British invention, a syringe with a needle which breaks if a user tries to pull back the plunger for a second injection, is set

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