I seem to have been scooting around the country quite a bit already this year, and although it's nice to get up north or into the countryside (and even better when you can do both), there's still something magical about London that you don't find in places like the Peak District (where I was last weekend ( Read more... )

Yesterday I wondered over to a talk by the SPGB on "Marx, Myth and Money". I discovered there existence when looking at which parties were standing locally during the European election and having found their manifesto broadly agreed with many of my views on society I've been curious to go along to one of their meetings ( Read more... )

There's been a lot in the news recently about Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing who has recently been released by the Scottish government ( Read more... )

I've got a number of friends who have Aspergers, including some of my closest friends. They're all generally lovely people, but every now and then they do something completely unexpected making you think "but.. but... what did you do that for?" and you suddenly see how their world view is subtly different. It's always fascinating when it happens ( Read more... )

When I went veggie, the average response when telling people seemed to be something along the lines of "Won't you miss Bacon ( Read more... )

I've always been quite uncomfortable with the issue of breeding animals entirely for our own consumption (whether as food or consumables). It seems somewhat wrong to give an animal a life entirely so we can take it away again ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot recently about banks and the way they interact with society, and the more I think about them the more bizarre the concept seems ( Read more... )

Following a curious conversation at work this morning, have a poll:

Poll Lunar Land?

( Thoughts )

There's been quite a lot in the news today about cocaine, how it's cut and whether or not it's declining. As part of this the Today programme had someone on this morning arguing that the prohibition seems to be causing more problems then it solves ( Read more... )

A conversation with morganmuffle yesterday, got me curious where people think the North-South divide is, so a poll:

This is probably going to completely fail due to people jumping on stereotypes, but without really thinking too hard about it, if you had to put a north-south divide line on a map where would you put it?

Poll UK North-South Divide