A BNP delegate approached as I went into the local primary school to vote today. He was unimpressed with my rendition of "Take The Skinheads Polling".

Why is the European parliament never in the Scottish or British news? Are we pathetically insular? Is it pathetically dull? A vast conspiracy of silence? Is it just me ( Read more... )

In the future, everything will be drastically different, except for the things I care most about now.

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I may buy half a dozen of these: 07/08 Massimo Donati posters - were £4.99, now only £3.99!

To the Editor[of the New York Times ( Read more... )

Self-regulation stands to regulation as self-importance stands to importance.
-- Willem Buiter

Went to see a couple of films at the GFF the other night, both of which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. The first, Religulous, involves Bill Maher, whom I'd never heard of, talking to various people about religion. Possibly because the name reminds me of Bill Moyers, I thought this would be earnest stuff, but in fact Bill Maher is a ( Read more... )

They [Strathclyde University researchers led by Prof. Tim Bedford] found that although most of the missions failed to meet their original objectives, they could still be seen as strategic successes because of unplanned or unforeseen consequences. Researchers noted that despite Columbus's failure to reach Asia, his planned destination, he did ( Read more... )