Tory employs the light touch to catch floating vote - on the stump

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Issues concerning the campaign of the shadow defence secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, and the local candidate for St Albans, Charles Elphicke, are presented. Reference is made to the use of helium balloons as a campaigning tool to help deliver the Conservative message.

Government regulation, Fabricated rubber products, not elsewhere classified, All Other Rubber Product Manufacturing, Balloons, Usage, Product information, Political activity, Elections, Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Toy industry, Rubber industry, 2001 AD, Balloons (Aircraft), Balloons (Decorations)

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The prophet of reason

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Science answers the same kind of questions that religion was seen as answering in the past, according to Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, England. However, he welcomes the fact that religious people are asking important questions.

Interview, Scientists, Dawkins, Richard

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Hot air and high pressure

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The British public is interested in weather forecasts, and not always for practical reasons. This could be explained in that forecasts allow people to feel that they are in control, and because a sense of mischief means that people delight when forecasts are wrong. Forecasters are blamed when this happened, and tend not to be praised when their forecasts are accurate, as though the public were on the side of the weather. The weather is also a non-threatening topic for conversation in Britain.

Social aspects, Editorial, Weather forecasting

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