BROWN SHAM ON MIGRATION
WHEN Gordon Brown unveiled an immigration crackdown last week, clearly he really meant to announce a crackdown on immigration officers

Britain's Brown says bank levy accord close: report
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the world's large economies were close to agreeing a global tax on banks to help prevent another financial crisis, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

Global warming: Greenpeace abandons reality--lies, libel and scummy behaviour are more fun, I guess
Greenpeace is an environmental organisation that thinks global warming is the challenge of our age. It is natural for them to combat opposing opinions, and vigorously. We would think less of them if they didn't.

But they have just published a report that flings mud in all directions, obscuring the issue they need to highlight. What they have done in this report is wrong, and will serve them badly in the future. The main target of their report is Koch Industries, a private oil firm that has contributed close to $25 million over the past 4 years to what Greenpeace calls 'a climate denial machine.'

Many families ‘living on a financial precipice’