Over half a million kids will receive their GCSE results today and I wish them Good Luck. But I bet some stuffed shirt will appear will pop up on the media and say that exams were much harder years...
Now here's a bit of news. Birds judge when to escape moving cars by the speed limit or, more precisely, the average speed, for cars on the road. They get killed by speeding motorists. Dr Pierre...
Have any of the cat slaves among you tried walking your cat on a lead ? I haven't till now but the idea of training my new baby to accept a harness while traveling in the car or possibly walk happily...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides the figure which journalists then bang on about - £26,000-odd, last time I checked. We know that the 'arithmetic mean' is a useless figure because...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398521/Pictured-Guardian-hard-drive-containing-Edward-Snowden-leaks-destroyed-David-Camerons-orders.html Should there be a News of the World type inquiry,...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23768203 I simply can't understand this business at all. These so-called bomb detectors were simple empty boxes with antennas attached. And yet this man managed to...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23768312 several examples in the link but: //Also included in the BHA's list of "high concern" schools is Hallsville primary school in Newham, east London, which it...
I've made it my own little beef that anyone trying to nick my ancestors get short shrift from me, I've come across a humdinger last night. A Canadian researcher has purloined my great grandfather and...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396965/Tearful-Oscar-Pistorius-charged-court-murdering-girlfriend-Reeva-Steenkamp-trial-date-set-March.html Do you agree it was premeditated murder or perhaps...
Rod Liddle, in the Sunday Times, reports that UKIP is now using psychometric testing of its candidates. This is to ensure that they have candidates that conform to some standard. Many have failed to...
The recent drug-related arrest of two young women from the UK in Peru made me wonder how many get through to deliver their cocaine. There must be some or the 'Mr Bigs' would recruit them. Could there...
Was in the garden watching for shooting stars last night. Pitch dark because the local council turns the street lights off. I heard a bird calling out and then realised it was actually in flight,...