Some things in life are inherently sensible. The Queen is sensible in a posh way. The BBC is sensible in an often annoying way. And in the absence of alternative data, we use ‘sensible’ as a feeling to test things out. Is it sensible to park the car there? Where it says ‘ambulances only’? Or – Read More-
How many ‘white supremacists’ does it take to murder a bunch of black people? The answer (strictly, though variations apply), is 2. One to be amazed at how all his preconceptions about black people are wrong when they invite him warmly and with love and welcome to their church, shattering the stereotypes he’s been building – Read More-
I’ve always been a bit cynical about statistics. You may have noticed this. And today this cynicism became fully justified with the headline: “97% of all drug trials back the firm that paid for them”. But who paid for THAT research? Someone must have paid the boffins at Stanford to test the test results. In – Read More-
Humanity has reached a kind of melt-down. Evolutionary perfection peaked (apparently on June 16, 1956) and we’re now in a continued down-slide from which I predict humans will become extinct by 2017. Maybe a bit later. Obesity is the biggest thing (no pun intended, but I’ll take it anyway) as now 62% of British adults – Read More-
Eight summers ago I was in Israel at the Sea of Galilee. August time. It was beyond merely ‘hot’ in any normal sense of the word. You simply withered under the relentless heat and sought out air conditioning desperately. Just like the ancient hebrews did. Like Jesus did when he was there. So one lunchtime – Read More-
Since 2005, the number of 16-24 year-olds who are teetotal has risen from 19% to 27%. Which initially sounds like good news. And it would be if the young were replacing quality binge drinking time with line-dancing, five-a-side football, shagging each other senseless, sitting in gangs in the park all night drinking water, but they’re – Read More-
I mean, its a bit ironic, innit? One minute we’re all Charlie Hebdo and defending the right of free speech with (literally) the dying breath in their bodies, and the next we’re sacking a Nobel-winning professor for some slightly misplaced jokey comments. Sir Tim Cole said, in a speech, that ‘women in science labs only – Read More-
The Affordable Art Fair is on again in Hampstead. On the heath. They erect this absolutely massive ‘building’ that isn’t a real one, just an illusion of buildingness. Its basically a marquee, loads of scaffolding and smoke’n’mirrors, yet it feels from the inside like a proper structure of substance and permanence. Yet if it was – Read More-
Its illegal to beat children in Britain. I know, its a silly law that removes ‘the stick’ and leaves just ‘the carrot’. And you can’t do much damage to anyone with a fucking carrot. We all remember the days when we could just thump the kids because they were small and defenceless and it was – Read More-
There’s a rally planned for July 4th. American Independence Day. Though its nothing to do with America. Nor independence. Its about Jews. Specifically its about “The Jewification of Britain” according to the far-right dickheads who are arranging it in their semi-literate way. And even more specifically its in opposition to the ‘Shomrim’, the volunteer security – Read More-