Son of Echelon
Breaking what’s becoming far too frequent radio silence, and I do apologise for that but life keeps happening, to mutter about John Snowdons revelations. I’m going to try and do the tricky thing and...
View ArticleTaxation and organ snatching
I’m not going to say anything new at all in this post, which won’t come as much of a shock to anyone who’s read much of what I write here. But recent news has given me an excuse to pull a few things...
View ArticleHere comes the nudge
I muttered yesterday about how the Welsh assembly had decided we no longer owned our own bodies (at least not once dead) and that they could just help themselves to our organs, unless they somehow knew...
View ArticleAnalogies don’t get better
Sometimes life smiles at you and the world creates the most wonderful of analogies. Yesterday as you may have read some Greenpeace protestors decide to climb the Shard. Which is a rather tall building...
View ArticleAlice Cooper lays down the law
It’s far too hot and I’ve been hauling logs around by cycle trailer, so no coherent thoughts tonight, so here instead is Mr Alice Cooper laying down the law on Rock and other matters via...
View ArticleTo my psychic friends
Much like the good folks over at Samizdata I had no interest in commenting on the recent trial of Mr George Zimmerman for the killing of Mr Trayvon Martin – not in my fields of interest and I knew...
View ArticleInequality gets royal consent
Today the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill got royal assent and passed into law. If you want to read lots of happy articles singing this as a great triumph, I suggest you ask a search engine or...
View ArticleI feel a flyer/poster campign coming on
It’s Friday and this amuses me, really quite tempted to get a few posters and flyers printed for leaving around, would anyone want some?
View ArticleSalami slicing to a police state
Whilst that nice Mr Cameron is killing free speech and trying to introduce state censorship of the internet to protect us from looking at dirty pictures another more worrying bit of legislation is...
View ArticleThe sky has fallen
Even as the science turns out to be even less settled than some of us have thought, the temperature continues to not rise and the estimates of the amount it might rise by hed ever lower the climate...
View ArticleClimatechanged the video
Following on from my previous post where I said the archive made a nice little slide show, I decided it should be put to music, enjoy… The melt water pools start forming around July 10th, reach the...
View ArticleMeanwhile in Russia
Hot on the heels of the same sex marriage bill being passed in the UK, Russia’s lower house has passed some sex legislation of it’s own. They’ve unanimously banned the promotion of homosexual...
View ArticleEverything will be need to know
(This post was first published at Knee Jerk) Ignorance it seems is bliss, that is our ignorance would be bliss to those that spy upon us. With so many revelations coming from the Snowden leaks it’s...
View ArticleThe political gagging bill explained
I’m not actually dead just horribly busy which looks to continue for a while yet – mainly this is due to an excessive amount of social life, but I’m coping. So in the meantime a video made by 38degrees...
View ArticleObama says “Hold me back lads, or I’ll do some damage”
(This post first appeared on Knee Jerk Reactions) Now I realise that the situation in Syria is terribly complex and I’m probably missing a lot of very important details but if I understand things...
View ArticleA random thought on Syria and Parliament
Finally catching up on all sorts of goings on that I’ve missed whilst work and life have been happening. Particularly a lot of commentary on a certain Parliamentary vote which apparently didn’t go the...
View ArticlePreliminary response to forthcoming IPCC update
Due to the forthcoming update to the IPCC report and the new details emerging about the validity of the models used we feel compelled to release the latest data from our research into PGCC...
View ArticleUnhappy news
If anyone reading this doesn’t already read Anna Racoons blog I suggest you get yourself over there and start catching up quick. Anna is about to have to go another bout in her fight against cancer her...
View ArticleLast week on facebook
I’m afraid I’m going to join the ranks of bloggers that put up lists of links, I post all sorts of random stuff up on Facebook that I never get round to saying anything much about so I figure I should...
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