Hi All I know that we ( or at least I do !!) moan about the cost of parking at Hospitals, but I think I have witnessed the dearest car park charges today - WESTFIELD Shopping Centre at White City -...
Does anybody care to guess what this could be, I'm looking forward to monday to find out, but I bet it's overhyped.
http://www.nasa.gov/h...7_Chandra_Update.html...
Good news that Paul & Rachel Chandler have been released more than a year after being taken captive by Somali pirates. Even better news for them is that, in this modern age, with their freedom...
A number of bigoted priests and senior clergymen, who are against the idea of women bishops and are also homophobic, are leaving the Anglican church to join Roman Catholicism where such despicable...
There is rather a tedious but acrimomnious exchange that has broken out on this thread - suggest you have a look at it and take appropriate action. It is a little bit of acid and alkali at each other,...
I'm sure this was a qi fact, from a couple of series ago, but i can't quite remember the details, can anyone enlighten me? It was something about the number of black people, or a specific cohort of...
It seems that Emma Thompson is working on a remake of the musical My Fair Lady,she is writing the script,AND doing the casting. So far the cast reads~ Mr Doolittle~Bob Hoskins (passable) Eliza~Carey...
Remembrance is a time of sadness. Throughout history mankind has fought war after war, more often than not arising from some regime's desire for power, or motivated by greed. Wars used to be fought on...
I was surprised to hear last night on QI that it wasn't illegal to keep and slave in the uk until earlier this year. But how would you have obtained one if kidnap and people trafficing etc were...
This may have been discussed already so sorry if it has. Why is there so much debate about whether it's wrong or right to wear poppies this year? I've never seen so much of a fuss made about them...
The mass of the Earth is about 6 x 10^24 kg but quite trivial compared to the mass of the Sun which is about 2 x 10^30 kg. It could be argued that the mass of the Sun roughly represents the total...
If we assume, for the sake of the argument, that George Bush is telling the truth in his memoirs where he says the use of waterboarding prevented a number of terrorist attacks, including attacks on...
// War widows will lose hundreds of thousands of pounds because of cuts to their pensions and benefits, campaigners claim. The changes, introduced by the Coalition, will affect families of the dead as...