New Home Front Design Competition

New Home Front are launching a competition to find the best ways in which wartime posters can be updated to help today’s society understand the dangers of climate change. Wartime slogans such as “Is your journey really necessary?”  and “Dig for Victory” remain as relevant today when so much business travel could be replaced by video conferencing and food miles continue to increase our carbon footprint.

Colour blind sharks

Sharks have been much in the news recently following the attacks at Sharm El Sheikh. However, new research has indicated that sharks may be colour blind according to The Los Angeles Times.

Nathan Hart, associate research professor at the University of Western Australia said  ”Now we know a bit more about how such sharks see the world, it may be possible to design swimming attire and surf craft that have a lower visual contrast to sharks and, therefore, are less ‘attractive’ to them. After all, most shark attacks are thought to be the result of curiosity on the part of a shark that has been attracted to an unusual stimulus, rather than some premeditated ambush.” Read more >>

Wellington Bomber takes off one last time

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For the last year I have been working with Stratford Armouries to develop a new Second World War exhibition.  Today I witnessed the remains of a Wellington bomber take off one last time. The bomber was purchased from a private collection and will now form the centre piece of the museum. The move featured on ITVs Central News.

Need a good green lawyer? Ask for Michael Schwarz

Good to see Michael Schwarz defending the green protesters in Nottingham Crown Court today.  He defended me in 1999 when I was arrested at Liverpool docks in a protest over GM. Greenpeace and other green organisations are right to fear being infiltrated by police informers like Mark Kennedy. When I worked there we had in place procedures to stop this but the police were still regularly tipped off about actions.