The mainstream view, sometimes conscious and explicit but usually unconscious and implicit, is that the West has the moral authority to lead the world. Five centuries of exploiting the global south say otherwise. ONE nation is circling the planet with … Read More »
In case I haven’t made this clear, I take the Ukraine situation very, very seriously. Not that I deem war inevitable or even probable. (There’s too much smoke ‘n mirror stuff here for anyone to call with justifiable confidence. ) … Read More »
Yesterday in the Metro (also in Daily Mail, Independent, Times, Sun and – ta-da! – Wakefield Express) … Marks and Spencer has become the first high street retailer to relabel Midget Gems over complaints the name is outdated. A disability campaigner … Read More »
Mike at a Papa Soul bash … Read More »
Bottlenose dolphins have been observed in group orgies, using snouts, flippers and flukes to rub the protruding clitorises and penises of their peers. Direct stimulation of the clitoris has also been observed in sexual interactions between only females. We can’t scan … Read More »
The other day I liked – both in the FB and literal sense – the post of a friend who’d offered this image. But isn’t it incompatible with the image I posted a few days ago? Only if we have … Read More »
[ezcol_1third]Thanks to my Facebook pal, David Paul Jacobs, for this. Eat, chew, Brutus?[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end][/ezcol_2third_end] And thanks to another FB pal, Michael Stowell, for this. *
January 5, 2022 provided perfect conditions at Attenborough Nature Reserve. After a spell of warm and wet, the fifth day of the year saw temperatures drop – and lashings of sunshine. The birds were out in force. No excuse, then, … Read More »
Two days ago I noted how corporate media in the West give even positive news about China a negative spin by appending the rhetorical question, but at what cost? I should have added that China’s ultra-leftist critics, imperialism’s useful idiots, … Read More »
. Stats nerds and propellor-heads aside, humans are crap at probability. It’s not that we can’t do sums. Weaving the lanes of a crowded M1 at 70mph, cutting a zig-zag across a busy junction on foot or leaping for a … Read More »