How 'Big Sugar' bribed Harvard scientists to demonise fat.

Sending the World's Most Important Graph to the Elephants' Graveyard

Labour 'moderates' were able to infiltrate the far left Momentum group (aka Corbyn's stormtroopers). Here's their leaked report.

The strange story of a dead cockroach  at Texas A&M University.

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'The Louisiana Gator Boys' being ( Read more... )

Seven Fantasy / SF Epics That Can Inform You About The Real-World Political Scene

The Jewish Chronicle gets hold of the report into Labour anti-semitism that the Corbynistas tried to bury

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Getting onto Stanford's MBA course. (I’m not involved in admissions, but I can’t imagine that any of my MBA students had to do anything ( Read more... )

The French civil servant with only 10% of a brain. (I know that sounds like base political satire, but actually it’s a serious scientific article about a bloke in France who is missing 90% of his brain.)

This couple should get an agent and sell the film rights to Richard Curtis.

Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter

One of our local ( Read more... )

The Class of '92's Lost Genius

"Actually it was *Advanced* Dungeons and Dragons that I played”, clarifies Gove.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of Uganda.

14 tips for aspiring humanities academics.

To a leftard, "all lives matter" is racist.

Some idiot left the floodlights on all night before the Euro2016 final. Moth-based hilarity ensued. (By half- ( Read more... )

The latest target of the PC police - Gilbert & Sullivan.

"Controversy as Chester Zoo opens 'Wrexham Scally Enclosure'". (I should point out that Homo Wrexhamius Scalliensis Chavus is pretty much confined to the southern part of Wrexham, not the nice bit where I’m from…)

Why Gandhi is such an asshole in Civilisation.

The Curious Case of the (Medieval) ( Read more... )

Useful archive of TSR D&D products.

If a political party vows to defend the welfare state against "neo-liberals", to defeat the "dictatorship of the markets", cut the retirement age to 60 and realign "taxation against capital and in favour of workers", it's a left-wing party isn't it? So why do people still call the French Front National a “far ( Read more... )

Solidarity with the Brownsons - a Gofundme project.

Medieval-style Lovecraftian art

Cats. From the 16th century. With frikkin ROCKET PACKS!

Star Wars / Back to the Future easter egg in Doctor Who

Chairman Mao "on balance did more good than harm". I love Michael Portillo’s expression of horror/incredulity/hilarity in this clip. Remember people, if ( Read more... )

Why did the Great Depression last for so long in the US? The US Government's economic policies.

In a university of several thousand students, all with smartphones, how likely is it that precisely none of them would take a photo of a "poop swastika"?

Right wing? Apparently it's your fault that muslim terrorists killed over a hundred people in Paris. ( Read more... )

This was part of the soundtrack for the film 'Local Hero', written by Mark Knopfler and a regular part of Dire Straits' set after that. Local Hero is a nice little film early 80s film starring, among others, Burt Lancaster, the bloke who played Wedge in Star Wars, Mrs Michael Winner Jenny Seagrove and the bloke who played Mr Mackay in Porridge. ( Read more... )