A VERY BRITISH COUP

I’ve just watched a 3 part drama called A Very British Coup which, as it was made in 1988, I was a bit young for the first time around [this is not the documentary of the same name about the royal abdication]. The dramas were based on the book of the same name [which apparently [...]

CARL SAGAN COSMOS

When I was young I saw the series Cosmos, by Carl Sagan. It inspired a lot of things in me and I recently got a hold of it again and have been watching my way through it. It is in fact even better than I remembered it. From the one I just watched I particularly [...]

UNFORTUNATELY NOT A HARMLESS BUFFOON

Below I have posted a funnyish song about Bush, in which the lyrics [except the last paragraph] are all daft things that Bush said. I say ‘funnyish’ because although it is tempting just to have a quick laugh at him and now that he is gone dismiss him as a buffoon, it is unfortunately not [...]

NOT NORMAL

I am not normally the kind of person to look at tima magazine but here is a good little picture album of 10 Species Near Extinction. Also here is the film I made about extinctions a while ago [the music starts after about a minute] and another link to my extinction site which I haven’t [...]

SOMEWHAT IRONIC

Ironic given the post below I mean. I was watching a lecture about biological anthropolgy this morning on my computer. During it the door went and it happened to be two Jehovah’s Witnesses. I have had religious cranks coming to my door before but although people always talk about the witnesses specifically, that is the [...]

GIVE ME 5 MINUTES WITH DAWKINS

Give me 5 minutes with Richard Dawkins. He did an interview recently on BBC. The 5 minute interview thing with the person who does it [don't know his name and don't care] was utterly banal. Give me 5 minutes with him. I guarantee you would have an interesting interview. I actually like a lot of [...]

VATICANALLY MODIFIED

It seems that it is not only governments that do completely bogus ‘consultation exercises’. The Vatican wants to get in on the act too. Here is an interesting article from www.spinwatch.org about the whole affair. VATICAN GM EVENT A CHARADE A meeting on genetic modification (GM) being held at the Vatican later this week[1] has [...]

THE MEEDJA

Just posting a few stats here that I found over at the Scottish Patient. The reason I am also putting them here is that as he predicted, they were largely ignored by mainstream media. Details of yesterday’s poll TNS/System 3 are as follows: Holyrood Constituency Vote (with change from 2007 in brackets) SNP: 41% (+8%) [...]

WORLD NEWS TRUST

An article of mine is on the front page over at World News Trust Click HERE to read it.

WELL DONE BARCELONA – NOW WIN THE FINAL

Well done Barca. I was absolutely delighted to see Chelsea lose yesterday. It was about negative football against positive football. It was also about different modes of organisation and guess what – the good guys won [dodgy decisions aside]. When I am asked what team I support I obviously say Celtic. When asked what other [...]