Stewgreen: I watched an interview with Tommy Robinson yesterday. He has been put through hell by the state - assuming his version is accurate (being put in prison and handed over by the guards to Muslim fanatics who beat him up).
He may not be a nice guy, difficult to tell either way from the interview, but if some of the Muslim trouble makers in our country had been treated as he has been we might not have as much trouble as we have now. Bottom line, I don't see a level playing field. (that's two banal cliches....sorry).

I see my point about sampling 'plastic pollution' in rivers with plastic bins etc, has made it to the letters page in the Daily Mail today (not from me).

Mar 15, 2018 at 9:55 AM | Uibhist a Tuath

The photograph showed mainly plastic bottles. If there is a "fault", it is with plastic bottling technology. Did they test bottled cola or other soft drinks? No.

Will a piece of plastic be found in any food or drink wrapped in a "plastic"? We don't know.

What happens to plastic, once ingested? Probably nothing at all.

Have the BBC or anyone else in the MSM, highlighted the totally bogus claims, based on faked up research, fraud and corruption, of the plastics in fish scam? No.

Should the BBC be trusted, to report on Green science? No.

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/12/07/author-controversial-science-fish-microplastics-paper-committed-intentional-misconduct-says-uppsala/

"An investigation at Uppsala University has found the authors of a retracted Sciencepaper — which explored the threat of human pollution on fish — guilty of misconduct.  "

The decision, published yesterday, states that both authors—Peter Eklöv and Oona Lönnstedt—“violated the regulations on ethical approval for animal experimentation,” and Lönnstedt, the paper’s corresponding author, “fabricated the results.”

"Experts say the additional deaths in England and Wales – the equivalent of one every seven minutes – are not the result of flu or bad weather."

The Russians? 10,000 dead and nobody has a clue except to rule out the inconvenient answers?

Daily Mail has this

More than 10,000 extra people died in the first few weeks of 2018 than is usual for the time of year.

Experts say the additional deaths in England and Wales – the equivalent of one every seven minutes – are not the result of flu or bad weather.

Health officials have acknowledged the 12 per cent rise but have so far given no indication of any possible causes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5502243/Mystery-12-percent-rise-Brit-fatalities-2018.html

Nothing to do with cold weather and high energy prices apparently.

Mar 14, 2018 at 11:09 PM | golf charlie

I watched the whole item, and spent the time thinking and the alternative is better? When we're daily bombarded by film of people round the world struggling to find clean water, or being killed by dirty water this seemed a non-problem Even for a person living in the sterile environment a UK home we must ingest for worse things than micro=plastic, on which there is no evidence of anything on human health. It had the obligatory please send more money request at the end.

Meanwhile, our politicians keep spouting the BS:

"MPs warn of 'poisonous air' emergency costing £20bn a year"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43405684

It's by Roger Harrabin - need I say more? Curious that our air is the cleanest it's been for many a long year, but suddenly it's an emergency...