Archives: November, 2007

Another Day in the Republic

Wolfie — November 27, 2007, 10:13 am

You know corruption is one thing, but when the BBC spends most of its evening bulletin trying to present the argument that it was all just an “administrative error” when it is patently obvious to anyone with greater intelligence than a mollusc that it is yet another case of gross corruption (Cash for honours etc.) [...]

Phone Wars : Dialers at Dawn

Wolfie — November 24, 2007, 8:39 pm

The iPhone has finally hit the UK in a fanfare of marketing blitz however its rather high price is putting-off a lot of penny-pinching Brits. I had a little play with one in my local O2 shop on the first day that it was out and I’ll admit that for the first thirty seconds I [...]

A Theory of Everything

Wolfie — November 18, 2007, 1:19 pm

For decades theoretical physicists have been looking for a unified field theory, a “theory of everything” which will map the relationships between the strong and weak atomic forces and allow us to predict the nature of yet undetected subatomic particles. Einstein dedicated most of his life to this quest and ended in failure.
This quest took [...]

The Language of Totalitarianism

Wolfie — November 11, 2007, 1:07 pm

This week immigration has once again taken centre stage in British politics, triggered in the most part by an article by Conservative MP Nigel Hastilow, naturally this has been followed by some fierce rhetoric but what I have found interesting about all this is the language which has been employed by the supporters of immigration [...]