ALDOUS HUXLEY INTERVIEW

He is just fantastic. Most people have read Brave New World but I would also encourage you to read ‘Island’. It really is an incredible book. This interview is also fantastic…

FUN WITH NUCLEAR POWER

An idea is being proposed - I don’t know how seriously - that the dome building at Dounreay nuclear power station could be turned into a hotel once it has been decommissioned. A hotel. Does this mean the Iranians will be accused of having lots of suspicious hotels? Dounreay is the place that pleaded guilty to four charges [...]

BURMA

This is not strictly relevant to what is happening at the moment but events reminded me of this Orwell piece… A HANGING – George Orwell It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like  yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the [...]

THE SPACE PACE

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year and instead [...]

WELL DONE AGAIN

I posted about this guy a while ago and thought I should just add the video clip from the real news. He swam across the north pole becoming the first person ever to do so as it was never possible before now. He did this to raise awareness about climate change.

SNAPDRIVE?

Just a question for regular users of the site. I disabled the snapdrive feature on the site because I used to find it annoying on other sites but now I kind of don’t mind it. What do you all think? On or off?  

ON THE LIST

www.socialistunity.com has put me on a list of top 100 leftist bloggers. I have been placed directly beneath Peter Tatchell, which is not a place I had imagined I would ever find myself. I was however placed above George Monbiot and can only assume this to be an oversight on the part of the compilers.  This list [...]

SOME PEOPLE WANT US TO BE IN DENIAL

This is from memory and was actually about the UK Foreign Office method of ‘handling’ a crisis about which they have no intention of doing anything…  1. Say there isn’t a problem. 2. Say that there might be a problem but we need to work out how serious it is. 3. Say there is a problem [...]

ARMS UNFAIR

This is from a while ago but nothing much has changed…

GOD-BOTHERERS – PART 1

On someone else’s blog last week (sorry, I really can’t remember where) there was a question about what sort of people you tend to get bothered by most, people trying to sell you something, companies cold-calling, that sort of thing. Well for me it is definitely the god-squad. I can’t seem to leave the house [...]