A riddle[1]: What’s the thing that there’s more of than nearly anything else, but which we haven’t got enough of? Would you like some clues? It’s used in dating. No, not Match.com and Tinder, carbon dating, and stuff. Working out … Continue reading Helium
The intemperate Matthew Doyle of Croydon, a man who clearly thinks that the link between Islam and Islamism is more direct and universal than many intelligent people are prepared to accept, reported on his own activism on the matter via … Continue reading Mealy mouthed
There were bombs in Brussels today, and I’m not going to talk about it. I’m not going to post on social media about it, and I’m not going to change my profile picture so that it is overlaid with the … Continue reading Brussels
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. George Osborne is simply trying to ease the dreadful tax burden on the rich, who are being dragged down by the feckless poor and the disabled. This is exactly what he … Continue reading Taxation
I don’t know. It’s discrimination, is what it is. People going round telling the difference between bits of stuff. Some of them use their eyes to do this, and they’re the worst. They can see black things and white things, … Continue reading Distinguish
There are three of them. Riding up the hillside in the evening, glimmering, shimmering almost imperceptibly. They think they can’t be seen or heard, but I see them. I know all about them. They don’t know I’m here. Now should … Continue reading Experience
Upgoer 5 is a description of a Saturn 5 rocket created by xkcd.com artist Randall Munroe. See here: For this, he uses a vocabulary that consists of no more than ‘ten hundred’ words. The following piece uses no more than … Continue reading Europe – Upgoer 5
The loss of Bowie, Lemmy and George Martin was in each case the departure of a giant of the musical scene, and it seemed for a few weeks that 2016 was going to keep delivering these hammer blows as a … Continue reading Keith
Terrorism is a scary subject. That’s mainly the point. In fact, that’s more or less all it is. Cancer is scary too, but that fear is a bit more justifiable. Rack up the deaths attributable to cancer in the UK … Continue reading Terror
Today it is World Book Day, so here is my list of a ‘top ten’ of books. It’s not a proper top ten, because they’re not in order – well, at least, they’re not in order of quality or preference … Continue reading World Book Day
