On page 3 of the Cambridge Town Crier there is a half-page advertisement with the following heading: THE PERSE SCHOOL A sixth form school with a notable academic record and a wide range of extra-curricular activities On page 5 of the Cambridge Town Crier a news report begins: “A female teacher at the Perse School, […]
Read MoreThe BBC and The Guardian: as long as it’s only the fuzzy-wuzzies that are dying, and not rich white people, then terrorism is a figment of the imaginations of our oppressive Western governments.
Read MoreThey certainly weren’t irresistible today, but Arsenal, at their best, still astonished. There were times when they made Man Utd look like an infants school team in midfield; shame they couldn’t finish anything. The simple truth is you can’t afford to make a mistake like Sol Campbell did at Old Trafford. Man U’s talent and […]
Read MoreIt’s time for the Razzies to start presenting an “Orson Welles Award” for film careers that have had the steepest fall from an early peak. [Michael Brooke will be round here in a minute to tell me off for caricaturing Mr Sherry.] Apart from giving film bores a truly interesting challenge (choosing Madonna for Worst […]
Read MoreDear British Guardian Readers I cannot tell you how grateful I am to be able to write to you on White House notepaper. I cannot thank you enough for your cruciate support in our country’s recent presidential election. When my colleagues used to show me cuttings from the opinion pages of your newspaper, the cartoons, […]
Read MoreIt’s lucky that the Tory party is so comprehensively crap at the moment because its house journal, The Daily Telegraph, just gets better and better. As Backword Dave demonstrates almost every week, even people who object heartily to The Telegraph‘s politics and are embarrassed by its other readers take it because it is still a […]
Read MoreJust to let you know that I am still around, but probably won’t be ‘Blogging much before the weekend. You could always read a book instead. Or go for a walk.
Read MorePharma-‘Blog Black Triangle made a brief reappearance a few days ago.
Read MoreApparently “Sudan’s Darfur” is “‘safer than Iraq’“. I’d been wondering where those millions of Iraqi refugees had gone to. I think Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Mustafa Osman Ismael, makes everything clear to Europeans when he says that “the international community should leave the complex ethnic politics of Darfur alone” because… “This is an African problem—it needs […]
Read MoreAfter last week’s frenzy, ‘Blogging is going to be thin this week because I have a lot on. Congratulations to PooterGeekers on their excellent work with Britney and to Oliver Kamm on making a better case for Bush (this time😉 and on re-making the best case for the second war on Saddam, namely that the […]
Read MoreCourtesy of The Motley Fool: An Englishman, a Scotsman, and a Nigerian are sitting in the maternity ward of a hospital waiting for the births of their respective children. They are all very nervous, pacing, fidgeting, and fretting. Suddenly a nurse bursts through the double doors saying, “Gentlemen you won’t believe this, but your wives […]
Read MoreOne of the co-workers of tech company cubicle drone Dilbert in Scott Adams’s inspired eponymous cartoon series is a fierce and talented engineer called Alice. She responds to the sexism and stupidity of her co-workers with extreme violence. She has triangular hair. Apropos of nothing, yesterday’s Economist magazine profiles Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer with […]
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Read MoreWonderful, wonderful BBC Radio 4. In how many countries can you come back from a run, stagger into the shower and turn on national radio at 10:30am to hear the scientific history of the year 1907? Almost inevitably the story started in Cambridge, at the British Antarctic Survey. Depending on what you believe, the explorer […]
Read MoreIt’s Friday! I invite haiku on the subject of Britney Spears—or is it “Britney Federline“?
Read MoreMy guitar teacher [he’s the one about to fall into the audience] started teaching me A Hard Day’s Night a couple of weeks ago. He didn’t tell me whether it opens with Gm7 add 11 or G llsus 4th. He just told me to stop fussing about the details, enjoy it, and wobble my head […]
Read MoreNearly all teenagers lean to the Left of course, but, if their precocious vocabulary is anything to go by, the ones the Sun-Sentinel has gathered together to comment on the US Presidential debate seem to have been taken from various South Florida academies for the gifted: “Although this debate proved to be the most entertaining, […]
Read MoreI’m not very good at parking. I have written here before about my driving my friend Auriol‘s car through a Genome Campus fence. Today I discovered why everyone avoids the cornermost parking space of the Campus’s underground car park when, moving into it, I managed to shuffle back and forth enough times to wedge my […]
Read MoreThis is not open for debate. My niece is cute.
Read MoreI want the owner of this Website to try out this product. And I want action pictures.
Read MoreI believe that, where it exists as a punishment for unlawful killing, the death penalty deters some potential murderers. I believe that, perversely, it can also make those who have already killed more likely to kill again. I believe that states should not execute their citizens. I believe that culpability for a crime should depend […]
Read MoreMany Americans see in Tony Blair the leader they cannot elect. Many also feel the same way about Arnold Schwarzenegger and are campaigning to make it possible for California’s “Governator” or any naturalized citizen meeting certain requirements to be permitted to become their president (subject to the other usual conditions). At least one commentator here […]
Read MoreVery shortly after I started PooterGeek, I posted a link to an article in The Independent, in the days when that newspaper was still in possession of some of its marbles. It described the abuse an American couple received in a British supermarket queue from a British family, abuse based solely on that couple’s being […]
Read MoreYesterday PooterGeek had the highest number of hits I have ever recorded—equivalent to about two minutes’ worth of traffic at Instapundit. Thanks to everyone who linked to my exhibit and said nice things. As I pointed out at Harry’s Place, I can’t post any on-site photos of my work lest I reveal the secret location […]
Read MoreThis is the most profound and extraordinary scientific result I have read about in months, and I only found out about it because it was linked to in last week’s Fark. (If you visit Fark, you might want to follow its lead to The Sun to see if you can parse the first sentence of […]
Read MoreSUE FROM BBC LOCAL RADIO: I’m standing in the grounds of an ordinary central Cambridge apartment block where local resident Damian Counsell has found himself at the centre of a controversy following his construction of a sculpture he has called, somewhat provocatively even he must admit, “You Bet Your Sweet Ass It Was In My […]
Read MoreI saw this poster yesterday on the noticeboard at work. The Cambridge Philosophical Society lectures are public. To quote the society, they are “open to all who are interested”. Sadly, even the touts had run out of tickets for this one: Professor Peter Littlewood Department of Physics ‘Quantum phase coherence: from coupled pendula to Bose-Einstein […]
Read MoreThis morning on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Dipesh Shah, Chief Executive of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority responded to the questions asked of him in his interview in almost unbroken corporate English. Listen to him use the phrase “the legacy of the past” twice and put the AEA’s recent success down to their “not […]
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