I’ve had few regrets in my life (so far; still plenty of time, I hope) but one was not buying tickets for Taylor Swift in her current concert series. How could I have missed that? She played in Glasgow last night, even though I won’t be in that city til Saturday on my own ‘world – Read More-
Johnny Depp and his wife, Amber Heard, are ‘boycotting Australia’. What a massive loss to that lowly, upstart nation that it won’t be blessed with an official visit by Mr Handsome-but-in-need-of-a-good-wash and his actress wife. You have to wonder if Australia will survive. Or whether there’ll now be a mass exodus of Australian boat-people arriving… – Read More-
Britain is always keen to protect ‘the pound’ against Euro invasion as the wars which plagued the entire continent for the entire 17th/18th and 19th centuries, not to mention the 20th, have moved from the battlefield to the economic environment; the banks and boardrooms. European nations no longer try to invade one another, no longer – Read More-
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-