Sometimes student evaluations reveal quite unexpected responses to a course.
Even though 84% of a sample of British Muslims believe they have been ‘treated fairly’, a worrying majority of the young still express radical views that are incompatible with liberal democracy. Such statistics raise difficult questions: radicalism is often written about as the product of poor treatment; this poll reveals that such simplistic answers [...]
Man was able to go to the moon with a computer that had more in common with a calculator than a desktop PC.
That, of course, was when computers were used for real work, as opposed to transferring “digital media” around the world.
A man has managed to get an ID Card dressed as “The Joker”. Priceless.
The fight against terrorism on the streets of Britain is not a war. It is the prevention of crime, the enforcement of our laws and the winning of justice for those damaged by their infringement.
Hear, Hear!
People in the UK believe that the NHS provides them with cost-effective, comprehensive medical cover, free at point of use. It doesn’t. It is an inefficient system, the subject of much pertinent criticism. The NHS pays for itself by allowing treatment times to become unacceptably long, and even when the waiting-time figures [...]
There is something oh-so-cool and terribly scary about the fact that we can now make flying weapons the size of insects.
Google News is a wonderful service that lets you search a huge number of (relatively reliable) news sources quickly - that is to say, it searches places like BBC News and the websites of newspapers around the world.
The Belgian newspapers have taken against this sort of thing, and are telling Yahoo and Google to stop [...]
The US is now highly dependent on Satellite technology in all areas of the military - to navigate its ships, aircraft and troops, and to guide its weapons. I’ve thought for years that it would be entirely rational of China to develop some way to destroy GPS satellites. Though I abhor the more [...]
It is true that there appears to be a new political consensus emerging in the UK. Even the Lib Dems are playing catch-up with policies that are rather far from their usual position. The Daily Mail blames the BBC.