The new USSR?

An ex soviet citizen (Vladimir Bukowsky, writer and lecturer) talks about the differences between the old Soviet Union and where the EU is heading. His last words in this video are quite chilling.… Read More →

World’s finest scientists?

Watch the whole video (Yes I know it’s 30 minutes long) as Donna LaFramboise deconstructs the idea that the IPCC consists of the ‘worlds finest scientists’. Rather there is a preponderance of students,… Read More →

Neil Armstrong R.I.P.

The first human to set foot on another world has passed from amongst us, and this leaves me deeply saddened. He blazed a trail across the sky that those who dare to dream… Read More →

The Tightrope Mendacity

Back in 1973, Desmond Bagley published a cold war thriller about a man who found himself part of the looking glass spy war between the West and the then Soviet Union. The book… Read More →

So what did they actually do?

I see various upholders of moral rectitude like Madonna, and Paul McCartney (Yeah, right.) are up in arms about a three member Russian punk band called Pussy Riot being jailed for ‘desecrating’ a… Read More →

Go to work on an – argh!

For those of you who can remember the old UK egg marketing board adverts, (I can, but I was very young back then) the latest twist is that a researcher in Toronto makes… Read More →

An alternative.

Mrs S is watching the Olympic coverage and they’ve just played Pink Floyd’s “Wish you were here.” In today’s UK, surely it should be “Welcome to the machine” from the same album. Back… Read More →

Frankly my dears

… I couldn’t give a damn. About the bread and circus of the 2012 Olympics. I’m not anti-sport or spectacle, but there are just too many other things to do and see this… Read More →

Who Dat?

Who are Olympic ‘Team EU’? I didn’t see them represented in the teams list for the 2012 Olympics. Maybe they’re entered in the team bandwagon jumping event? /snark