or not as the case may be. But they're firing the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, which will possibly end the world in a giant imploding Black Hole, or maybe a never-ending expanding Big Bang 2 ( Read more... )

Humanity just baffles and disgusts me. I've just seen a crowd form around the velvet rug they've thrown over that new statue of James Braidwood, so they can 'unveil it'. Seeing as any one of these people could have looked at it as much as they'd liked any time over the last month and riught up until 10am this morning, it seems a little nuts to ( Read more... )

So Russia is bombing Georgia back to the stone age again?

This is just how Splinter Cell started off......

In the news today, nothing much happenend. Well little that interested me anyway.

Until about 5 minutes ago.... when they announced that Barry George apparently now actually didn't kill Jill Dando. Oh well shame about the 8 years he's spent in a cell hated by the british population ( Read more... )

Of interst to me today is the ongoing media argument over what can cut down the mass binge drinking culture in the UK. Today's arguments ranged from whether a continental approach should be had or whether we should do away with the club culture and move towards a more traditional ye olde pub idea ( Read more... )

Well, I'm as shocked as the next person but according to the opinion pages, it seems I'm not alone in what I wrote yesterday about the law reforms. So says the Times. The Independent, true to their name take a slightly different tact, as usual talking a lot and saying very little other than to give a bleak truism as if it were original thought ( Read more... )

I see this morning, that the papers are filled with news that English law is about to have the first major overhaul of the murder charge in 50 years, and now will make changes that in essence mean that a battered spouse or partner can now use the 'Words and Conduct' defence as a partial defence allowing them to plead to a reduced charge of ( Read more... )

Having read 4 different broadsheet articles and CNN's coverage on the story about 4 Romany girls who were caught by strong currents sea at Torregaveta, ending with two of them drowning ( Read more... )