Unfortunately, I often lose track of events when they're no longer headline news, even important ones ( Read more... )

I feel confused by the news of Friday's ransomware worm. I've tried to piece together the pieces ( Read more... )

Via emperor http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30976610Read more... )

https://storify.com/sturdyalex/non-british-eu-citizens-denied-a-vote-in-european?utm_source=l.facebook.com&utm_content=storify- ( Read more... )

A little while back, there was a fuss, "should a corporation hire the obvious candidate for CEO if they donated money to a campaign against allowing equal marriage".

What I think should happenBut lots of posts about it framed it as "should everyone refuse to hire people with different political views" and concluded "no, even if the views are ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863

Design

I like it. I think it's the first new coin design I've actively liked, although I came to like the £2 and £5 coins a lot later. I like the word "dodecagonal". Yay for being shaped like a thruppeny-bit :)

Backwards ( Read more... )

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When news was slow over Christmas, a spate of newspapers ran one of those "here's an interesting little factoid" articles about a Israeli archaeologist who dug up a different town called Bethlehem in north Israel, quite close to Nazareth and said "hey, I wonder if the bible story about Jesus' birth is about this one, not the one at the other end of ( Read more... )

I was listening to the news on radio 4. My favourite item was "Many people believed a prophecy that predicted that the world would end this afternoon. It didn't ( Read more... )

So, the news all over the headlines today (as I found out when wondering why so many strange tweets are appearing), seems to be "30-year-old married couple expecting baby". I'm not sure why I feel compelled to repeat that.

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