MARK THOMAS ON DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL

DEAR GELDOF AND URE…

Rediscovered in the email archives was this little beauty from my brother. Thought i would reprint it here. I also wrote a little something about Geldof, which you can find here. Dear Geldof and Ure, I write to take issue with your hugely successful, 1984 famine fundraising song “Do They Know Its Christmas”. The issues [...]

SATURDAY MATINEE 9 – OUTFOXED

An older documentary here but the points they make still hold good…

HOW ABOUT A ‘RIGHT NOW’ RULE?

There was an interesting development a few weeks back when the government decided to reduce the amount of time that passes before confidential papers are released from 30 years to 20 years. However, documents relating to the royal family will be exempt*. This is all well and good as far as it goes you might [...]

2 FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

Two subjects that I feel strongly about are internet freedom and the current extinction crisis. So there was a bit of an internal clash when I saw the headline… Internet threatens rare species, conservationists warn Conservationists say the internet has emerged as one of the biggest threats to endangered species. Campaigners say it is easier [...]

ADVERTS

With a big thank you to mikevotes I just want to say that this video is interesting. It is about 3 minutes long and shows you how you can use a google application to put whatever advert you want on the TV. The people in the video made their own advert and had it broadcast. [...]

SATURDAY MATINEE 8 – CHINA’S OLYMPIC LIE

A little look at what happens when the olympics or world cup comes to town. This is extreme but the some similar things happen EVERYWHERE when there is an event of this sort. China’s Olympic Lie (24:15)

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE NOUNS

There are some pretty unusual and funny collective nouns for animals but one that always struck me as strange is that in order to suggest wisdom, the collective noun for owls is “a parliament of owls”. Isn’t the collective noun “A parliament of owls” actually insulting if you want to suggest that owls are intelligent? [...]

GREAT MISSING THE POINT MOMENTS IN HISTORY – THREE – NANCY REAGAN

It is possible to argue that the Reagans getting anywhere near the Whitehouse was a missing the point episode in itself but you could probably make that point for just about any of the presidents. Anyway…just a little quote from Nancy Reagan here… I believe that people would be alive today if there were a [...]

SATURDAY MATINEE 7 – THE FOURTH WORLD WAR