Rehumanize yourself

There’re always people who say that all this sitting behind computer screens to communicate is reducing our ability or willingness to intereact “in real life”. I’ve never agreed with that, and am being proved right this week and next.
Today I met and had a really interesting chat with Jon Worth, who writes a blog on [...]

Deeper Underground

There’s been a lot on the airwaves today about the announcement of more support to carbon capture and storage. It’s an issue I follow with interest, from my Science and Research days. I was quite surprised to hear one of the opponents today saying that there’s only one demonstration plant at the moment, in Germany, [...]

Say What You Mean

I was at the Reporting Europe Awards last night (as was my Twitter pal @Nosemonkey though I didn’t know and so missed the opportunity to meet him in the flesh). Two of the six finalists were people I knew from the Brussels press room and in fact one of them was the eventual overall winner, [...]

Direct from G20

It was a mindnumbingly early start this morning – I don’t often get up at 5.45! I made it to the hotel on time, and then was whisked to the ExCel in the official convoy. The morning was crazy, as we got our bearings and did some recceing for the afternoon’s press activities. The Commission [...]