LET’S ALL LAUGH AT BLATTER

The IOC and FIFA are essentially unaccountable bodies that have a huge influence on people’s lives. Just think about the amount of people that are displaced or have their homes demolished against their will when one of these big tournaments comes along. So if you, like me, have never particularly liked Sepp Blatter and people [...]

PLACES YOU CAN’T GO – No. 1 – LASCAUX

It would be fantastic to go the Lascaux caves in France. Most of us have heard about the 16,000 to 17,000 year old caves from someone. However, when they were opened to tourists the exhaled CO2 from all the visitors visibly damaged the paintings to the point where tourism was stopped and the caves were [...]

RENAISSANCE MAN?

I have been interviewed on the Mars Hill blog. CLICK HERE to read it.

STUPID ANIMALS

I was watching a lecture this morning and there was an interesting section about the behaviour of a group of Chimps. One chimp had died and the adults would not allow the children to come near the corpse. All except one, which was the brother of the monkey that had died. Whilst not wishing to [...]

BAD BEHAVIOUR

We are all supposed to know what bad behaviour is. Things we shouldn’t do are drummed into us from a very young age, at home and at school. Curiously enough, the same schools that tells us a lot of what we see as good and bad behaviour often also tell us about the so-called ‘captains [...]

JUST BECAUSE I LIKED IT

I recently went to an exhibition where I particularly liked this piece by Hugo Rheinhold. It is Affe mit Schadel by Hugo Rheinhold.

MY LITTLE BREAK

My little break from blogging is over and I would like to report that I had a nice break. I would like to report that but it really isn’t true. Just not had a minute. Anyway, I will give you something from Eamonn McCann here, taking another shot at U2. I saw him speaking at [...]