Steve Ballmer, who has held the position for the past 13 years, said last month that he will step down in the next 12 months.

I thought that windsorblue made some good points about the management of care homes, but some of what he said about reams of regulation chimed in with pietro99's point that council Diversity Officers are there because of the Equality Act, Human Rights Act and European law. Just what became of that pledge to repeal the Human Rights Act I wonder.

June 15, 2010An all-electric supercar designed by Imperial College London has completed a 26,000 km journey across the Americas.

Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life (until October 20); Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm (October 2-January 5).

The first is that homeopathy is a subject that really, really, really gets the goat of a lot of articulate, clever, funny writers from Ben Goldacre to Damian Thompson. I've read quite a bit of what they have said on the subject. And do you know what? I dispute barely a word of what they say. As I thought I'd made pretty clear in the original piece - clue: "almost every sensible article I've read confirms me in my assurance that it's bunk" - I'm fully aware that whenever homeopathy has been subjected to any kind of empirical testing it has failed to perform except (presumably) through the placebo effect.