I made the mistake last night of watching a documentary about the third tower to collapse at the World Trade Center. Much of the programme was devoted to discussing the conspiracy theories attached to this event. Almost all of this was new to me, it was presented intelligently and with a good balance, and yet it left me twitching ( Read more... )

Ummm, its at the back of my mind somewhere - lets see - hang on  I'll check the calendar - oh yes, that's it.

Happy 4th of July !

I am not the archetypal male. When I get a new toy I don't play with it constantly for a few days and then throw it in the back of the cupboard. Quite the opposite. I treat new things with respect, even suspicion, find out only just enough to get them to work, and slowly get to know the full extent of their functionality as and when I need to ( Read more... )

For one week a year (or sometimes less), we British like to pretend we have some tennis players who are other than useless. So, for at least the first round of Wimbledon, come on the Brits ( Read more... )

Having grabbed your attention with the snappy subject, you are now all agog to find out 'WTF is Nilsigma on about now ( Read more... )

Democracy has a knack of fighting back ( Read more... )

I notice that the World 100m record has been broken again. I have always liked watching athletics (track and field) - and I emphasise the watching here, I cannot run or jump or throw. But the first though that entered my head when I heard of a new "world's fastest man" was "I bet he is on drugs". Which makes me sad. Although there is some merit in ( Read more... )

From the BBC -

"In the 1950s the Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan put the financial benefits of cigarettes over the nation's health, records show.

Then health minister Robert Turton advised the 1956 Cabinet to "constantly inform the public of the facts" of the link between smoking and lung cancer.

But Mr Macmillan, who was prime ( Read more... )

That is, in a nutshell, what is wrong with the world. I truly believe this, and it is clearly true ( Read more... )

Now lets see. Eurovision - old news. Mars - old news too, and nothing to add. Cricket - who understands it but me? Bad weather - not news at all in England, where 'holiday' and 'cold and wet' go together like 'Tory' and 'toff' or 'Labour' and 'out of office ( Read more... )