SOMETIMES..

Sometimes I do wonder what the f*ck some people are thinking. This is from the BBC… Concern over gorilla ‘executions’ Conservationists have expressed concern over the “senseless and tragic” killing of four mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The bodies of three females and one male were discovered by rangers earlier this week [...]

LOGIC-DODGING

Logic-dodging. I love that expression, and there is always a lot of it about. My uncle sent  me this picture of some builders in England. They have just finished erecting the bollards so that people can’t park their car in  the place where they are standing. Look at the picture and tell me what you [...]

THE A-Z OF NEPAL – Part 7 (the last)

Here is the last part of the Nepal thing. A few years ago I spent some time doing voluntary work (building a school) in rural Nepal.It was far and away the best experience of my life. The warmth and the friendliness of the people despite everything they have to put up with is something I [...]

MORE GOOD PICTURES

Apologies to the cultureghost who is responsible for the bottom two pictures. I didn’t credit him before because I obviously lifted them from his excellent site a while ago and forgot where I got them from.

TELL IT LIKE IT IS

Monbiot’s latest article in the Guardian is excellent. But I also loved this one from a whole ago about our new bono-in-waiting Chris Martin from Coldplay, who wants to do for/to the environment what Bono did for/to Africa (which is nothing, at best). Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention. By [...]

DAWKINS AND STUFF

I really appreciate what people like Dawkins and others are trying to do, though I think with a certain Mr Hitchens there is an alternative motive and I would be anxious to point out that I seriously doubt I am in the same camp as him on any issue.  Anyway, a lot of people seemed [...]

HELLO AGAIN

I have limited access to the web for the next little while but I will be making posts when not on the web and using the excellent timing feature on wordpress so that they come up once or twice a day. I will also therefore be responding to comments in one big session every so often, [...]

SOME CARTOONS

THE A-Z NEPAL – Part 6

A few years ago I spent some time doing voluntary work (building a school) in rural Nepal. It was far and away the best experience of my life. The warmth and the friendliness of the people despite everything they have to put up with is something I will never forget. When I got home I [...]

IT’S NOT CENTRIST, NOR IS IT MODERATE

The airwaves are by no means free, nor have they ever been.In the early days of radio then later television, who has access to broadcasting was minimised by the power to allocate available analogue frequencies to commercial enterprises. This meant that the State, in any given country, by means of choosing which people or consortiums [...]