I read something here about how years ago people weren’t easily contactable and it occurred to me that, whether at home or out and about, I’m rarely, if ever, without my mobile phone. Has yours...
http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/01/fifa-bans-poppies-during-match-because-they-are-political-statements-6226627/
I don't regard poppies as a political statement. Do you?...
//Around three-quarters of the 583 people imprisoned on terror charges in the years since the 9/11 attacks have now served their sentences and been released from UK prisons, many still holding the...
When looking at two pictures on a cigarette packet today – one of clean, healthy lungs – and next to it a picture of horrible black, lumpy-looking lungs, an idea occurred to me. Rather than the...
//More than 100 migrants, including minors, spent the night sleeping in or near the charred wreck of the "Jungle" migrant camp, despite French authorities declaring it “empty”….. Those who did...
Another great drama series. Is anyone else watching it? According to this link, we're in for another series of Marcella too. Bring it on, as 'they' say....
The Brexit referendum produced, and is still producing, a plethora of dire warnings of disasters about to befall us. With, among other things, the prospect of economic meltdown, a deficit of trading...
Stephen Hawking has said that AI in the future "could develop a will of its own - a will that is in conflict with ours" and that it could “end mankind if it is misused”. Are we becoming too smart...
A rare lunar rainbow - or moonbow - has been photographed in the skies over northern England.
Some nice pictures.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37677698...
I'm looking for books of short stories for children. I've bought one by David Walliams - 'The World's Worst Children' - but Amazon has several by Terry Pratchett on offer too that look quite funny....
Scotland at the very heart of Europe? Is this woman really that delusional?
http://news.sky.com/story/sturgeon-intends-to-keep-scotland-at-heart-of-europe-10617640...
According to an article by Charles Saatchi in last night’s London Evening Standard (sorry, I’ve looked but I can’t find a link), scientists say that the limited number of genes that influence...
Continuing our conversation, I found it very predictable. It was readable and the psychology of the main players was interesting, but I was expecting more of a mystery and more of a twist, so overall...
//His lawyer said “There is a strong humanitarian case that it would be better for him on health grounds to be incarcerated there. "It is also extremely unfair his family is not able to visit him in...
The NEC in Birmingham is, this weekend, hosting a convention celebrating 50 years of Star Trek. Is anyone going – or would you if you could – or do you think it’s all a bit daft? Such fun! I’d...