if i lived in a small village, and one day it was bombed by US planes and unmanned drones, and over 100 of my neighbours, men women & children, were killed i wouldn't think Barrack Obama was the best thing since sliced bread

the house martins are back again from Africa - their return always renews my confidence in the natural world -- i'm waiting to see whether they will nest again above my kitchen window, but fear that the gas boiler outlet, installed by local council workmen, which emerges a couple of feet away will probably frighten them off

i'll believe there's a serious economic crisis when the UK Government stops refitting its Trident nuclear subs (cost estimates range from £20 billion to £100 billion)

the USA's primary influence on 21st century morality so far has been to justify the use of abduction, torture, indefinite detention without charge, and a global network of CIA run secret prisons

this is the evil legacy left us by George W Bush and his sycophantic sidekick Tony Blair in their holy crusade to control the world's oil supply

BBC Radio 4 News gleefully covered the demise of The Pirate Bay.
They wish!
The Pirate Bay is dead? Long live The Pirate Bay.

the Tony Blair Faith Foundation

England's best known fantasist's latest attempt to spin the world

support globalization! give him your money!! and praise the lord!!!

if governments are so concerned about their citizens' health then perhaps they should fight less [ahem... fewer] wars rather than make laws about what people can eat, drink and smoke

at 1978 memory prices, my current hard disc storage (internal and external) is worth more than £50,000,000,000 -- although i'm even poorer now than then, i feel like one of the richest people in the world lol

Much of Albinoni's music was lost in the destruction of Dresden in WWII by vindictive allied air raids which destroyed Europe's most beautiful city

human society sees reformers as more dangerous than criminals

in January 2009, more cars were sold in China than in the US

i'm glad Jehovah didn't tell the Jews that where i live belongs to them - (it's bad enough he told the Normans and the Hanoverians)

the UK government's plans for identity cards is just one more step in its attempts to control the lives of its citizens -- how long will it be before all babies are chipped at birth?

for those who say if one has done nothing wrong then one has nothing to fear, think 'holocaust', think 'inquisition', think 'Hiroshima', think 'gulags', think 'cultural revolution', think 'witchcraft trials', think 'Irak', think 'Armenia', think 'Palestine'

yes we can... spend $1,600,000,000 to elect a president

the young worry about their love life
the old worry about their health

no matter how bad the financial situation gets, the UK government is unlikely to give up the Trident nuclear missile program
throughout history, rulers have generally regarded killing people as having priority over feeeding and housing them

Oxford University opens up new animal torture lab

"You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour." - George Bernard Shaw

the recent US raid into Syria is yet another example of America's "do as we say, not as we do" foreign policy

bankers spend years doing shady deals, earning huge bonuses, and when they get found out the Government rewards them by giving the banks billions of taxpayers' money

the Chinese Government claimed that the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games were "basically carbon neutral"

i look forward to seeing the figures