1. Stephen Hawking: ministers' £80m error puts science at risk

Comment #193867 by Cromwell on June 16, 2008 at 7:10 am

Ian Pearson (BA Hons Philosophy, Politics and Economics) points out to Stephen Hawking (Lucasian Professor of Mathematics) that there were no arithmetical errors. Who do we trust to do the sums?

2. Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch'

Comment #128843 by Cromwell on February 18, 2008 at 4:45 am

We should remember that the last person to be convicted of witchcraft in the UK was Helen Duncan in 1944. (Yes thats 1944 not 1744) True she was not burnt at the stake but she did serve a term of imprisonment.