Two seismic events occurred yesterday. First, the Higgs boson ‘God particle’ has probably been discovered by scientists at CERN. Then, even more extraordinarily, Andrew Neil had a good word to say for a Lib Dem MP, as Julian Huppert offered a succinct summary of why it matters…
(Available on the BBC website here.)
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3 Comments
I too, am astonished.
Like Andrew Neil concluded ” Amazed…… getting straight answers from a politician !!”.
Andrew Neil’s intro was an interesting example of the way in which some media people are almost proud of being ignorant about science – down to mispronouncing the name of the particle as ‘bosun’.
Andrew Neil is great