I've just had a note from **FIXME's nursery, informing me that: "In response to the potential influenza outbreak ... we will be introducing a sanitising anti-bacterial hand-rub at every nursery access point"

Anti-bacterial ... to protect against a potential virus infection. That's reassuring ( Read more... )

The other day I got wound up by Thought For The Day (Ok, that's not news, serve me right. Bear with me ...) The pontificator of the morning was making the specious and offensive argument that young people are terribly irresponsible and their opinions pretty much worthless, until they have children themselves, which transforms them them in to ( Read more... )

There's a lot of debate around at the moment about the ethics of torture. Alas, unlike the last round I remember from Amnesty taking off in the 1980s, the direction of travel is very much in the opposite direction ( Read more... )