4 DEGREES WARMING

A recent report from the MET office [the UK government meteorological service] said that global temperatures could rise by 4 degrees centigrade by 2060. Were that to happen the results would be countless diasasters, starvation, drought in some areas, flooding in others. In fact, it would be all the catastrophic things we have been hearing [...]

THE MAN WHO HELD THE QUEEN TO RANSOM AND SENT PARLIAMENT PACKING

In the summer a fellow blogger gave me a book called The Man Who  Held the Queen to Ransom and Sent Parliament Packing [1968] by Peter Van Greenaway [not to be confused with Peter Greenaway the film director]. It is a fantastic read. An army captain called Wyatt organises and pulls off a more or [...]

NEW YES MEN VIDEO

HOUSEKEEPING

You may have noticed a bit of a change in the look of the site. I just wanted to clean it up a little bit and that acid green colour annoyed me.

PODCAST TWO

In this one I speak with Professor David Miller of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. David Miller is the author/co-author/editor of several books including “A Century of Spin: How Public Relations Became the cutting Edge of Corporate Power” and “TELL ME LIES. Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq.” He is [...]

BETWEEN ENGLAND AND NORWAY

When in foreign parts I once described the location of Scotland to someone who had never heard of the country as “more or less between England and Norway” and today I found an interesting little piece of information on that front… 104 years ago today Norway and Sweden solved the outstanding disagreements and dissolved their [...]

PRODUCT PLACEMENT

Since product placement has been approved for British TV [except the BBC] I thought I would get in the spirit of things by trying a little on here…

CHRIS HEDGES – CELEBRITY CULTURE

Interesting interview with Chris Hedges about celebrity culture. It is also nice to hear someone have a go at the ridiculous ‘wrestling’ thing that people watch. 1st part 7 minutes and 2nd is 5 minutes.

A SCOTTISH HOLIDAY – PART 1

As previously intimated I have been on a little spin around Scotland. Over a few posts I will put some nice photos and give some pointers for where you could go and what you could do if you decide to do the same thing. This is the first one so I suppose we need the [...]

SORRY PRIME MINISTER

Africa….2005….Gordon Brown… “‘[the] days of Britain having to apologise for its colonial history are over…. We should celebrate much of our past rather than apologise for it. And we should talk, and rightly so, about British values that are enduring, because they stand for some of the greatest ideas in history: tolerance, liberty, civic duty, [...]