European Elections

Our Guardian Piece: Science and the European Elections

Mon, 06/01/2009 - 14:13

Here's my first ever piece for The Guardian, co-authored with Frank Swain.

On Thursday, millions of us will go to the polls to decide how Britain is represented in the European Parliament, but few will have the faintest idea where the candidates stand on issues that affect the food we eat, the air we breathe, the energy in our homes and the chemicals in our environment.

Continue reading at The Guardian.

For all the party responses we received, see here.

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Science and the European Elections

Sun, 05/31/2009 - 20:31

Myself and Frank Swain of Science Punk have questioned the leading parties ahead of the European Elections this week to find out more about their science policies. The results were interesting, and sometimes shocking. We've split our research into nine policy areas, listed below. Some are here, and some are over on Science Punk. Click on the index to take you to the policy area that interests you. (Now with full answers from the parties appended - apologies these weren't up sooner, but a few were missing still yesterday.).