May
21
2018
The Brexit people constantly refer to the sacredness of democracy and the 2016 referendum as their justification. But they consistently show utter contempt for the democratic institutions that safeguard our freedom. The Daily Mail regards judges upholding the law...
May
14
2018
Google It's ok to be smart.What does the 97% Consensus on Climate Change really mean?
May
11
2018
I hate the way some Tories pose as great Britisn patriots even as they are busy selling off our country to foreigners. Ordinary Londoners are finding it increasingly difficult to live in London while the foreign billionaires turn their...
May
03
2018
There can surely have been no time in the whole history of the arts in which they have been so bereft of beauty as now. Indeed, you sometimes wonder whether their contemporary mission is to negate and destroy beauty....
Apr
30
2018
Opinion
Ten million British jobs could be gone in 15 years. No one knows what happens next
John Harris
The reality of automation is becoming clear – and it’s terrifying. So why is there so little thinking among politicians about those who...
Apr
27
2018
from The Guardian 27/04/18
The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees.
The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations on Friday, is expected to come...
Apr
24
2018
Just as the S.S. killed people in gas chambers and did not think of themselves as committing a horrific crime but, on the contrary, persuaded themselves that they were performing a noble deed on behalf of the Reich, so...
Apr
17
2018
I.O.
(Woman is taking her husband to the doctor)
W: He’s really ill. I think he’s got Information Overload.
D: Does he talk in his sleep?
(M keeps surreptitiously reaching for the mobile phone in his pocket and wife keeps guiding away his...