My post on the Independent’s online site; Can someone explain to me why the idea that only English constituency MPs should be allowed to vote on matters affecting only the people of England is...
This is a short clip from this year's Springwatch introducing the science of phenology. As I watched I became aware of some rally nice music going on in the background. I hope somebody might know what...
We watched this last night. As an atheist of Christian background I was delighted when any Biblical or scientific relevance was abandoned in the first few minutes of the film, so I could sit back and...
Broadcast tonight on BBC 4 HD some very good cameramen produced some stunning HD video clips of our planet from the air. However this was just the backdrop for the real meat and potatoes of the...
Having just watched ITV News I wondered if anyone else was saddened that two politicians and would be heads of state sought to use the ceremony at Stirling itself to take cheap-shots at the Prime...
I am a vet. Yesterday I had the horrible duty of putting down my own pet. Over the deacades of my workI have searched for the answer to my question by reading many scientific texts beyond my own...
I agree with the Prince of Wales that there is a strong historical similarity with Nazi pre-war annexations and the behaviour of the Russians re- Ukraine....
Please watch the above. If you do you will realise how fundamentally undemocratic this country is. I believe the best solution would be to allow the leader of the party who win the most individual...
Jim down the pub suggested that the failure of the 'West' to finish off Saddam Husain in the first Gulf war was the reason AQ began to turn against us. True or false?
Like so many issues facing us here in the UK the balanced and rational is hard to establish (for me anyway). As I understand it collators who study criminal activity advise the police on the profiles...
I've just watched the BBC's WW1 re-visitation 2 part documentary concerning whether the UK should have entered into WW1. Tomorrow night we will have experience the full force of the anti-involvement...
I love this band, but for all the wrong reasons it seems to me. I initially saw Everything Everything as a breath of not so fresh air, re-injecting traces of the inventive music of the progressive and...
Last night, in glorious Blu-ray on my HD plasma TV, I watched Master And Commander- The Far Side of The World for the third time. We wondered why they shouldn't make a sequel to such a brilliant film,...
Apparently nobody killed Meredith Kercher, anyone who could possibly have been a suspect denies it so presumably it must have been some kind of freakish accident perhaps triggered off by a...
I suffer from LLI (Low Latent Inhibition), the inability to ignore inconsequential background distractions making it it impossible to effectively focus attention on the main sensory stimulus. It is...
The government is launching a multi-million pound army recruitment campaign, there must be a reason why. The country in question is the UK, soon not to be the UK if the people currently resident in...
For over 50 years living in the UK I have been pronouncing strength as 'strenth'. Recently on BBC 4 I have heard the Open University people saying strength with a hard 'g' between the 'stren' and the...
Jacques Santer said that economic union in the EU would not work without political union/integration. How right he was when you look at the Eurozone now. Can anyone think of another example of a...