Look guys, just a quick post from here in Tonga’s sunny Nuku’alofa.
No internet on board, and only the BBC World Service, Sky, the (Australian) ABC and MSNBC news.
On every channel the only, and I mean only, possible culprit mentioned is ‘anti government right wing extremists’, special mention being given to Waco and Oklahoma City. The [...]
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Govt. propose removal of AGW from under 14s curriculum, Guardianistas outraged
Oh dear, so sad, too bad. I am motivated to play a tune on Nick’s micro-violin.
Debate about climate change has been cut out of the national curriculum for children under 14, prompting claims of political interference in the syllabus by the government that has failed “our duty to future generations”.
Climate change? [...]
Lord Melvin of the Bouffant
A couple of nights ago Our Beloved Lord of the BBC Round Buffet Table (of the Free Drinkies and Nibbles), Lord Melvin of the Laboratoire Garnier (because he isn’t worth it) was asked about the “bedroom tax” on the early evening “entertainment” creature called “The One Show” on the BBC and he wrinkled his [...]
The Second Coming…
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- William Butler Yeats.
Yeah, like whatever because you don’t [...]
Hugo…
From The incomparable Daily Mash
Meanwhile, tributes were also paid to Chavez by the usual arseholes.
Ken Livingstone, George Galloway and Gerry Adams all said he was a great man, which is pretty much all you need to know about Hugo Chavez.
Oh and Sean Penn and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were there too. Apparently they are going to pickle [...]
The Tatchster
Do you want me to explain precisely why I am on Peter Tatchell’s mailing list?
Nah, thought not. Now Tatch is a rum bugger. He often has good points but mires them by a descent into equality politricks that takes up 2,000 words. I reckon I wrote three essays in my entire post-16 puff and then [...]
Gullible sycophants
Al-Qaeda calls for internal spiritual struggle against France.
Back in Britain.
I have been back in Britain a few days (it feels like years), my impressions are….
“Evening Standard” on the late night-early morning train from the airport.
Weird article attacking “golf club Nazis” (for such clearly Nazi things as likeing Monty Python - no the article made no sense to me either). I have now remembered that [...]
Sally Not-So-Bright
Why women may just keep Britain in the EU
What? I thought it was the LibLabCons who were hell bent on keeping the UK in the EU. Not according to Cathy Newman though.
As Sally Albright explains in When Harry Met Sally, “Women are very practical.” It’s why, she says, Ingrid Bergman gets on [...]
Israeli Elections 2013.
The balance of power will be held by a political party headed by a television presenter (the son of a another media type) who has promised everything (education, health, housing) to everybody - and who is known (even to his actual supporters) as “Pretty Boy”.
Anyone want to explain how Representative Democracy is a good thing?
In a hole in the ground…
…there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted [...]
A tale of two Great Metropolitan Newspapers…
From The Guardian we have:
“Experience: I gave birth outside Waitrose”. (Please read the whole thing It is unfiskable nonce…) Obviously, The Guardian doesn’t have the companion piece, “I got knocked-up round the back of Aldi”. That would be merely for the lower classes. So enter the Daily Mail. Soon… Too soon if you ask [...]
Insight of the day…
Newly-released diaries contain an account of the Joint Intelligence Committee’s report on Hitler’s final days in his bunker.
Dr Stephen Twigge, head of the Modern, Domestic, Diplomatic and Colonial team at The National Archives in Kew, west London says the dictator is portrayed as, “a rather depressed, demented, mad individual“.
No Shi’ite Sherlock! I mean for fuck’s [...]
Why I despise the Daily Mail.
Hypocrisy is the short answer.
The longer answer is their cutsey-named “Femail” sidebar on their website. It by and large consists of stuff like this. Note the second image where Ms Moss’s nipple is clearly visible. And this from the valiant crusader (that’s all over the front page of the print edition) against online pornography. This [...]
Debt Crisis? What Debt Crisis!
In my time as an astrophysicist I got used to, well, astronomical numbers. So there are several hundred billion galaxies each boasting several hundred billion stars. That’s cool. Not least because some might have solar systems where they can do economics but this is terrifying…
We are not having a debt crisis.
It’s important to [...]
