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Nicola Pagett obituary Michael Coveney © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: PA Nicola Pagett, who has died suddenly of a brain tumour aged 75, will not easily be forgotten by anyone who saw her on stage or screen over a career of 30 years. She was a glacial, beautiful presence in plays from Shaw to Pinter and she illuminated Upstairs, Downstairs on television in the early 1970s. She played Elizabeth Bellamy, the spoilt and self-absorbed daughter of the upscale Belgravia household in Eaton Square, who makes the mistake of marrying a poet with no interest in the physical si...

With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutonium—considered the most lethal of all radioactive substances—and nowhere in media that NASA projected 1-in-960 odds of the plutonium being released in an accident on the mission. “A ‘1-in-960 chance’ of a deadly plutonium release is a real concern—gamblers in Las Vegas would be happy with those odds,” says Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Indeed, big-money lotteries have odds fa...

  Bill Gates, while motivated to help fight climate change, has also long been trying to make a success of his nuclear technology company  Terra Power.   The climate emergency presents him with the perfect opportunity  to promote this, and especially, to get tax–payer funding to do it, as he suggests in his new book. Elon Musk and Bill Gates: beware of gurus toting solutions to climate change Elon Musk  has grand plans to save the world. Bill Gates has just published his book  ”How To Avoid a Climate Disaster”.   They both envisage tax-payer funding for their solutions.  But ...

“A ‘1-in-960 chance’ of a deadly plutonium release is a real concern—gamblers in Las Vegas would be happy with those odds.”

from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.] The two big stories this week: "fake news" and Russia's alleged manipulation of our election. Actually, in my opinion, they’re non-stories. In regard to fake news, I have a confession to make. First, some preface. To put my podcasts together I trawl through news websites on the internet for stories of interest. The big American broadsheet newspaper websites have mostly disappeared behind paywalls. I can't afford more than one of those, so I subscribe to the New York Times online version—not because I like the damn thin...