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Saturday, January 26, 2008

British MP mentions Egypt’s Baha’is in debate

by Barney on 26 January 2008

Photo by Deryc Sands ©Parliamentary Copyright
I was cheered to read this intervention by Bob Spink MP, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Friends of the Baha’is, in a recent Westminster Hall Adjournment Debate in the UK House of Commons. The debate was about the Foreign Affairs Committee’s eighth report of the 2006-07 parliamentary session on [...]

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Astronomically short-sighted

by Barney on 26 January 2008

I was appalled to read this on the BBC News website:
UK astronomers will lose access to two of the world’s finest telescopes in February, as administrators look to plug an £80m hole in their finances.
Observation programmes on the 8.1m telescopes of the Gemini organisation will end abruptly because Britain is cancelling its subscription.
It means UK [...]

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