Amazon are kindly sponsoring a £10 million prize fund "to help solve one of the greatest issues of our time.". In aid of that, "Britain is reconvening the historic Longitude Committee "

Has anyone else read that lovely book Longitude (by Dava Sobel)? In which Harrison (the hero of the story) is buggered about by the original Longitude Committee, full of people with vested interests, who fudged experiments and tests, and denied his claims and prize money for decades.

A visit to www.longitudeprize.org shows they (the new committee) have already decided what the greatest issues are. No surprise one of them is tied to climate change. They (the new committee) also have a certain whiff of "the usual suspects".

Hmm, sounds familiar?