BBC cat name scandal — hundreds of thousands dead
A producer of BBC kids show Blue Peter has just been suspended in the continuing row over phone in and competition deceptions. He fixed a viewer poll to name the…
Moggy! Moggy! Moggy! In! In! In!
It is heartwarming to see that the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has installed a cat at 10 Downing Street. The prime minister’s official residence has been without feline charms for…
Arashi: environmental terrorists
While popsters around the world are lining up to urge us to environmental action with the Live Earth concerts, cuter-than-kittens J-Pop boy band Arashi are doing their best to destroy…
Seal cull on ice
Canadian sealers have been stranded by unusual pack ice conditions. About 100 boats carrying fishermen conducting the cull of 270,000 seals off Newfoundland’s coast have been trapped by ice. Some…
The Lord God Almighty tells George Bush to ‘fuck off’
Today, the Lord God Almighty, a supreme being, told George W Bush to ‘fuck off’. The Good Lord added, ‘you are a lying, dissembling little plonker, and I hope you…
Does Big Brother watch NHK?
Does Japan’s state TV station suffer state censorship? This is the question that has set Japan’s blogosphere buzzing since the Ishikawa earthquake on March 25. Nagaijin has alerted me to…
Brazil is now
There was an interesting piece in the online Guardian recently which explained how in Britain victims of wrongful imprisonment are charged for B&B for the amount of time they spent…
A cure for cancer? Not if there’s no profit in it
A chemical called dichloroacetate (DCA) has proved effective in lab tests of killing most kinds of cancer dead. DCA is cheap, easy to produce and has no serious side effects.If…
Appeasements in a pod
Donald Rumsfeld recently compared critics of the Iraq war with the appeasers of Hitler’s Germany (original story apparently now taken down). Terrible thing, appeasement, but is it better or worse…
Peace in our time with bombs
Three weeks into the war in the Lebanon and the UN has finally agreed, after some intense wrangling about the specifics, to prevaricate some more. The process in the UN…