How to defend a questionable purchase (specifically the ultra-final-collector's-edition-director's-cut boxed set of Blade Runner.

South Yorkshire Police were warned twice about moslem sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham, but ignored it and treated the victims as prostitutes.

A selection of great works of art in which women are clearly trying ( Read more... )

Generally I like LiveJournal and wish it was more popular. But there are one or two things that I don't like. One of those seems to be by far the most popular community on LJ - 'ohnotheydidntI don't know if this works for all possible configurations of friends feeds, but on mine, there is a section on the right hand side of the page called LiveJournal Today ( Read more... )

Want to play in the NFL? How good is your memory? It’s very rare for people not directly involved in the game to ever get access to pro playbooks. This copy of the Oakland Raiders’ 1998 June mini-camp (a sort of short training camp before the main one) playbook was leaked / released recently. Yes, it’s a bit old (dating back to when the Raiders ( Read more... )

Worried that you might avoid tax? This helpful guide shows you how to avoid avoiding tax.

Does going to court to change your dead millionaire father's will so you pay less inheritance tax count as "avoiding tax"?

Interesting reviews of all the Gollancz SF Masterworks so far.

5 Misconceptions About #GamerGate and the Truth Behind the Myths

Five Actors ( Read more... )

"NHS 111 to blame for rise in A&E attendances is a really dreadful explanation for something that did, in fact, not happen". (Thankyou Steer for a good piece of analysis.)

Ed Miliband thinks that an Italian who runs an American company and lives in Monaco should pay "his (British) taxes". This is a Labour policy I can get behind - get foreigners ( Read more... )

A rousing defence of private property from an unusual source.

Why are NHS Accident & Emergency units suddenly too busy to cope?

Very serious corruption in the NHS watchdog. Seriously, people should go to prison for this.

Which society connects Oswald Mosley, the founders of the London School of Economics, H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw...and advocated ( Read more... )

Europeans drawn from three ancient tribes.

How an independent Scotland could have been the richest nation on Earth. (Note that's "could", not "would".)

"...there is someone out there who thinks Doctor Who is fundamentally a show about two teachers hanging out in a junk yard, and that it all fell apart when they introduced that time travel guff."

Jens ( Read more... )

A new series of The Clangers!

Paul Krugman on Scottish independence. (And it's nice to see that even neo-Keynesians have come around to my way of thinking on the Euro.)

Prices, Paul Krugman, and Consistency

This is why poor kids don't grow up to be interior designers.

Is Apple quietly killing off its best product?

Why US forests are fuelling Europe.

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The man who was killed by a flying model lawnmower at an NFL game. (True story.)

Three Things You Didn't Know About The Arachnids That Live On Your Face.

What is #GamerGate?

Much respect to this Italian doctor.

Inflating normal lungs versus inflating smoker's lungs.

What charities need to learn from #icebucketchallenge.

How those transfer ( Read more... )

Would cracking down on the number of foreigners in the Premier League help the England team? Let's use economics to find the answer.

Uncommon dragon hoards.

Are gamers racist?

To all those Scots planning to vote 'Yes' so they can usher in a socialist utopia, let's see how another small oil-rich country overshadowed by larger, more prosperous ( Read more... )