If you watch one video this mont hmake sure it is this lecture on the difference between the Western and Third World. Everything you know is wrong.
The BBC ran around after the election telling everyone that the Conservatives hadn’t increased their share of the vote, despite picking up over 800 local seats. It didn’t seem to make a lot of sense - see this analysis of their rather “twonkish” methodology. And then go and read your rather battered copy [...]
In a matter of weeks, Britain will have a new Prime Minister. Barring miracles, it is seems likely that that leader will have a tough time and will lose the next election. It would almost be unnatural for him not too: Labour have now had a very long time in office. On [...]
Blair has sent a message to voters which Nick Robinson amusingly paraphrases as:
Please don’t kick me. I’m going soon anyway. Oh, and by the way, a Scot’s coming next - probably - and he’ll be great.
Dear oh dear oh dear.
From a Newsweek article:
Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn’t lost blood. All that’s happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of “clinical death”—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died?
It seems that, starved of oxygen, the cells of [...]
This tirade caught my eye.
I sympathise with the writer. He needed a better editor (one who didn’t give him such an awful headline), and isn’t really a patch on Clarkson when it comes to writing over-reactionary prose. But there are numerous choice sentences:
If we recreate the Dark Ages in the 21st century, it [...]
No, not petrol, my dear American readers, but helium.
Robert Page is product manager for bulk gases at Air Liquide, which supplies gas to industrial firms. He notes his company has not yet been forced to turn away customers. However, he warns that helium — just like natural gas — is a non-renewable [...]
It seems likely that Blair will be gone next week. Not to me, but to all the journalists who are carefully preparing us for some annoucement to come after the local and regional elections.
It is more and more certain that Brown will become leader of the Labour party with no opposition. [...]