With Europe in the grip of an exceptionally cold winter and energy disruptions and disputes raging in parts of Eastern Europe energy supply and prices is a hot topic at the moment. The question on the lips of most people in the world of finance right now is how bad is it going to get? [...]
Its not every day that international news is made on your door-step but the advent of a whale venturing up the river Thames as far as Chelsea bridge has ignited the interest of news agencies all over the world. The first we realised something was going on was last night when we were disturbed by [...]
For those of you who have ever played one of those text based RPGs/Adventure games of yester-year Defective Yeti has written an excellent satire on the progress of the most powerful man in the world :
Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure
The rest of you eye-candy monkeys will just have to surf-off.
With the publication of a recent report linking the use of cannabis with mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, the Home Secretary Charles Clarke has been considering re-classifying the drug back from C class to a B class in spite of reclassifying it downwards last year. This report rather reminds me of a young man I met [...]
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Are you tired of reading the news? Are you traumatized by man’s inhumanity? Are you depressed by the mundane futility of existence? Come and push my pet Penguin, you’ll feel better in no time.
On reading the news about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent RTA on his Harley whilst out riding with his son I couldn’t help but picture a scene of Arnie emerging from his overturned motorbike to face the idiot driver who had reversed into him as he suddenly realizes that he has just reversed into The Terminator [ [...]
The recent news of the rape and murder of British holidaymaker Katherine Horton in Thailand is sad news indeed and my sympathies go to her family and friends but the recent arrest of two local fishermen got me thinking about my own experiences of travelling alone in the poorer parts of the world.
Every year thousands [...]
The Institute for the Study of Civil Society (CIVITAS) has recently published a book on the subject of political correctness, “The Retreat of Reason” by Anthony Browne.
Issues that Browne discusses include :
Issue
Politically Correct Truth
Factually Correct Truth
Women’s pay less than men’s
Sex discrimination
Different work/life choices, childcare breaks
Explosion in HIV
Teenagers having unsafe sex
African Immigration
Rise in anti-semitic attacks
White [...]
This year our New Year celebrations were a low key affair at home with family in front of the television with Jools Holand’s Hootenanny and a cracking selection of music as one has come to expect of him. As we raised our glasses at midnight to toast in the New Year the skyline (see the [...]
