Greenpeace VW Ad

This is a great new play by Greenpeace on that recent Volkswagen advert…

Oh You Like Snooping & You Know You Do

So, because of a temporary job I just arrived in what is a half posh English town: I mean half in the sense that half of it is very well-to-do and the other isn’t at all. After a new job meet-and-greet affair I was walking home about 25 minutes ago in a hurry to get [...]

Fair Weather Friends – An Old One

People are complaining about the weather. Nothing new there. Here is another example of things that haven’t changed much, written a couple of years ago… FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS People from in and around the Scottish village of Carrbridge in the Cairngorm mountains have been complaining about the BBC weather coverage. They say that it lumps [...]

Scotland Sunday Photos 8 – Jura & Barnhill (the house where Orwell wrote 1984)

I have always been an Orwell nut and when I found out that 1984 was written on the Scottish Island of Jura in a house right at the top of the island I thought I would like to go and see it. I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity and here are some [...]

A Trip to the Casino

The first time I went to a Casino was at Niagara Falls. My brother and I were supposed to be in Canada for a holiday in September but our flights were cancelled because of 9/11 so we ended up going in January. It’s a bit nippy in Canada in January and our day going down [...]

Italians Finally Round on Berlusconi

Here is the photo causing a bit of a stir in Italy after Berlusconi’s defeat. I’m informed that it is actually illegal to take a camera or a phone into the polling booth in Italy but this lad seems to have got away with it.

Animal Intelligence

This is a truly remarkable story with huge implications about how these animals should be treated. I have topped and tailed it here. The full story is here… Spitting and urinating chimps ‘replay Aesop’s fable’ The study was carried out with gorillas and chimpanzees. The primates were presented with a vertical glass tube, which was [...]

Saturday Matinee 16 – God’s Next Army

Scarey stuff here. Despite the fact it is pictures of Bush et al at the beginning this documentary is still entirely relevant. The first video is below, the others are on the continuation page. All the other Saturday Matinees are here.

The Scene of the Crime(s)

I got  a surprise yesterday looking on BBC site and it reminded me of a couple of incidents. There was this picture of the Daejon World Cup Stadium in South Korea and a story about match-fixing involving the team that plays there. I used to live right next to that stadium. Do you see the [...]

Modern & Inclusive

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. Annie Besant