So. Trying to catch up on my political watching/reading and the first stop was yesterday's Question Time. Now I know, I know, it isn't really any good for actual politics, but it is a good source for references, a bit like a poor man's political New Scientist in televisual form. It was actually quite good this time round. There was very little ( Read more... )

I'm one of those who's pretty much late to everything, expecially tv shows, so it was on Tuesday that I watched last Thursday's Question Time (hopefully I'll get round to watching last night's later on today).

( Of Idiot Features and Metaphysics )

 Can someone tell these politicians that talking over each other might make them think they seem tough, but really just means we - the public - either can't hear them, or think they're behaving like twats. Or both.

EDIT: On a more serious note, for anyone out there who can watch this weeks Question Time, is anyone else finding Peter Hitchens ( Read more... )

I've missed so many of these. There's been so much I wanted to rant about: Melanie Philips and her standard 'we need the best sort of people, regardless of whether they be male or female' as if that's an answer to the problem of the tiny female representation in the House of Commons (oh how that line irritates me whenever the issue arises. It doesn ( Read more... )

•  Enter the Matrix - this suddenly makes the prospect of Vector Spaces revision so much more worth it.
•   Mewonders if this is how the end of the human race will come about... beware, my friends, the Uprising!

And who else knew that Newsnight Review had changed to become 'The Review Show'? Oh, right, everyone. I'm an idiot. Well, I'll just rant about ( Read more... )

First Question Time of the year last night, which I enjoyed thoroughly but nevertheless found a little depressing...

Unfortunately, having been distracted by 'Girls of the Playboy Mansion', I only watched half of the programme, but I can always say it was probably the better half, so there.

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