The other day I mentioned a little project I’ve been quietly working on, that of turning some of the ‘thoughts’ of ‘Steve Freedom’ (aka local BNP Councillor, Simon Smith) into a few usable campaign materials for, well, anyone campaigning against the BNP in their local area.
I think we all know the score, here. Under Nick [...]

Like many other bloggers, I’ll be taking some time to do real world things over the next few days (mainly ‘Dad things’), so bloggage will be touch lighten than usual.
I’ll also be using the holiday period to finish off a couple of projects I’ve had in the pipeline for a while, one of which is [...]

Stephen Hawking’s foreword to a ‘A Brief History of Time’ contains a brief but quite illuminating note on the attitude of the publishing industry towards ‘popular’ science books, one in which he relates how he was advised by the editor assigned to his book that each mathematical equation he incorporated into the text would cut [...]

Haven’t done a decent fisk for a while, but then I spotted Marcel Berlins reworking a few tired old arguments and decided that this is too good an chance to get my eye back in to be passing it up…
Over to you, Marcel.
Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” awards were started in 1927, since [...]

This, from Pickled Politics, is well worth a read, just for the glorious run of pisstakes of Oliver Kamm that I appear to have accidentally set off in the comments.
Is the book any good? Buggered if I know, but according to the shill on Amazon, the Times seem to like it.
What I really would like [...]

As a mountaineer knows, the problem with working in a rarified atmosphere is that you tend to end up being laid low with oxygen starvation.
Here’s Jonathan Derbyshire on the limits of necessary disrespect…
Dawkins’ attempt to explain away centuries of religious belief by comparing it with childish credulity, for instance, is deeply unsatisfactory. And if this [...]

Polly Pot (sans vegetables on this occasion) appears to be having multiple orgasms over David Milliband’s half-arsed proposals for personal carbon quotas…
But Miliband’s electric radicalism comes in his plan for personal carbon allowances. Here is where social justice meets green politics for the first time. Give every citizen the same quota of energy and let [...]

I guess the title’s a bit of a giveaway that this post is about Christmas and, this being me, you’re already expecting another solid entry for the weekly swearblogger’s round up…
…and I have to say that when I do get into this properly, you won’t be disappointed.
But to start with I should say that there [...]

To save disappointment, if you’ve found your way here via a seach engine and you’re looking for photographs, then sorry you’re going to be bitterly disappointed – try somewhere else.
This is just one of those tales that catches the eye as you’re mooching round the net for no better reason than its a bit odd, [...]

Very good piece by Political Penguin on a pretty crappy piece of reporting by the BBC.
More than £100m of public money is spent on translation services in the UK, the BBC has learned.
Local authorities spend £25m, NHS trusts £55m and the courts £31m on interpreting languages.
Refuse collection guidelines and one-to-one smoking sessions are among the [...]