Well, it seems Aunty Beeb has upset a lot of people with the most recent episode of Dr Who, the one entitled ‘Can you hear me’. The thin plot dodges (well lumbers) around mental health concerns and Gods that feed on fear. (Let’s skip the theology part, ‘cos, yer…) The Metro’s title – ‘BBC responds
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I was with WordPress.com, a few niggles I was never happy with, but fast, secure, reliable, just… expensive. For a third the price WordPress(.com) asked, I can have unlimited WordPress(.org) sites. So I moved. Again. Currently with Bluehost, who are a sister company to Hostgator. Not sure how I feel about that, but I’ll give
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I was scrolling through Facebook, like you do, and ran into Clive. Don’t be like Clive. The post in question, entitled ‘Why This Word Is So Dangerous to Say or Hear‘, was by Psychology Today and detailed research – using an fMRI – on the cognitive effect of negativity. It happens to be one of
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I’ll expand this when I have more time, but it serves as a starting point. I really should get round to writing an article on denialism, notably including global warning. For the moment though, the main focus of this post is on the plastic aspect of it all. In parts of the world’s oceans are
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Baffled by what the Brexit Party are doing, and more to the point, what they NOT doing, I send them the following letters: Hi, I see you STILL do not have a list of candidates. This is top on the news you scrapped around half of your candidates. Candidates who put themselves forward, possibly put
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It had been snowing all night. So at … 8:00 I made a snowman. 8:10 A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman. 8:15 So, I made a snow woman 8:17 My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere 8:20 The
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The state of parliament and the Brexit coup d’état I contend that the current House of Commons is filled with lackeys of febrile wit. That being so, who is pulling all the strings? The answer, at least on a gross level is obvious: ‘big business’ multi-nationals, the EU, the banks, ‘the establishment’, the media, lobby
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This post: circa 1,400 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes Criminalising a smack on the leg The Telegraph and others are currently covering Scotland’s proposed law to make smacking your child a criminal offence. e.g. I smacked my four-year-old – does that make me a criminal? People that make these laws are, IMO, pretty clueless.
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