Striking Out

With UK strikes on the way and the media, as usual, only ready to focus on the disruption that may be caused and barely willing to focus on the reasons for it here are a few ideas, mostly in an American context but applicable to anywhere, taken from here, on the subject of striking that [...]

Rare Monty Python Interview

I am not sure how rare it is given that it is now on youtube but it might be one you haven’t seen before. Amongst other things they talk about how good concert or show crowds are in Glasgow..

Not In Mine Name

The BBC are reporting that “Landmine use is at its highest since 2004 despite record clearances”. They get straight on to blaming all the official enemies of the state of Airstrip One and one or two allies whilst neglecting to mention that neither the Bu$h nor Obama administrations would/will sign treaties against their use. In [...]

OLD Jokes

In the magnificent Candide, Voltaire said something about Admirals in Britain… In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. Nowadays of course, they don’t do that. What they do is promote royals to admirals without them having earned it and put out embarassingly [...]

Great Missing The Point Moments In History – Five – An Old Work Colleague of Mine

This one hardly ranks as a famous moment but is worth a mention. For the others in the series click here. Anyway, I had completely forgotten about this till I was just reminded of it there in an email. In the run-up to euro 2004 tournament there was talk of an office sweepstake for the [...]

Lobbying Video

An excellent German video about lobbying. Click on the CC thing to get the English subtitles…  

Nature Photo – 3

Saturday Matinee 18 – The Corporation

The full documentary of The Corporation. Every bit as good now as it was when it first came out.

Pish Is Usually Transparent

Pish is, all things being well, transparent, but also usually has some colouration. However, today in the Daily Express we saw a new  some of the most see-through pish the world has ever seen. The Daily Express  in no way used unnecessarily emotive language… ALEX SALMOND was yesterday urged to stop feuding with Westminster as [...]

Still Can’t

Not had the opportunity to do much this week.   In the meantime…