Watching Question Time from last Thursday, I was struck by how people's hatred of "bankers" for so-called financial mismanagement is really directed at a faceless, anonymous and ill-defined group.

Thanks then are due to Hugh Hendry, for proving that there are real people behind the abstraction, and that they really are thoroughly deserving of

If Lord Browne's plans go into effect, it seems likely that the four-year degree I took from Oxford will soon cost 24k at the very least, and perhaps more like 40k, in student debt for fees. What actually happened was that I graduated 10 years ago with 5k in student debt, none of which was because of tuition fees ( Read more... )

Any signs yet that the Australian cricket board are extending the sight screens upwards at all the Test grounds? If the Pakistani batsmen are to be believed, Finn has two wickets just from being a couple of inches taller than Broad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6166195.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/22/irish-terror-threat-conservative-conference

Oops.

In Python, a += b is *not* always equivalent to a = a + b.

Fortunately, I caught it fairly quickly.

I know, "BBC journalists have no idea what science means", "dog bites man", etc. But a good example of the type.

Here's the BBC report:

Motherly love 'does breed confidence'

Being lavished with affection by your mum as a young child makes you better able to cope with the stresses and strains of adult life, say researchers.Read more... )

or possibly too small a screen:

http://www.eschatonic.org/misc/furniture_small.jpg

Nobody heard him, the dead man ( Read more... )

http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/mosquito-device-council-europe-take-wrong-position

Article 11 of ECHR provides a right to assemble with other people in a peaceful way ... we do not consider that this right includes the right of ( Read more... )

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/29/medical.marijuana.walmart.lawsuit/Read more... )