I wouldn’t normally pull a comment out into an individual post but on this occasion the issue, though simple, is important enough to warrant giving it a high degree of prominence. In reponse to my observations on the LSE Student Union’s failure to operate within the terms of […]

Quite how or why LSE’s came to be called ‘The Beaver’ is not a matter on which I care to speculate. It has, however, published an article by a Tasif Zaman which nicely illustrates when the real cause from which the recent outbreak of the religious asshole virus […]

Although the Internet is, today, positively swimming with consumer review websites, the online consumer review model has its flaws. One can never be entirely certain about the personal motives or degree of experience that product reviewers bring to the table nor how robust a review sites’ systems when […]

Yesterday’s Cornish horse mutilation story has seen further developments over night, not in terms of evidence or progress with the ongoing police investigation, but rather in terms of further elaboration on the supposed ‘Satanic’ aspects of the story, as it is being presented in the media. While journalists […]

Yesterday, the BBC News ran what, by any measure, is a rather unpleasant local story from Cornwall… A horse has died after being horrifically mutilated in a field in Cornwall, detectives said. Devon and Cornwall Police said the tortured animal died from severe injuries to its head and […]

It would appear from today’s Twitter traffic that Rhys Morgan has now hit the big time with the acquisition of his own personal fruitloop, who comes complete with their own batshit insane Youtube channel, ‘SKEPTICSexposed’ (seven videos and counting, so far). That said, most of the smart money […]

If you’ve been following developments in the ongoing case of the skeptical blogosphere vs Dr Stanslaw Burzynski then you’ll probably be aware that, yesterday, yet another branch of mainstream media joined the growing list of professional journalistic enterprises that have recently been drawn into, perhaps unwittingly, promoting his […]

Have you heard the one about the Uruguayan, the Frenchman and the bunch of somewhat baffled Englishmen…? Yesterday’s announcement that Liverpool FC’s Luis Suarez is to be banned for eight games and fined £40,000 over an incident during a league game between Liverpool and Manchester United on 15 […]

If it hasn’t already registered, 2012 is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, and if Dickens is your kind of thing then you’ll be well catered for over the next few months as there are something of the order of 18 separate radio and television programmes […]

I think this more or less sums up my feelings about Lord Hunt’s suggest that bloggers might like to voluntarily sign up to a PCC-run kitemark scheme… Actually, I should point out, as well, that the term ‘Kitemark’ is a registered trademark of the British Standards Institute, which […]