Fry defends the BBC
“The BBC enriches the country in ways we will only discover when it has gone and it is too late to build it back up again,” the writer and comedian said.
That’s just irrational nonsense. There’s no logical reason why we couldn’t, if we so decided, re-create the BBC after we’ve got rid […]
From AFP
Smith said she agreed with all 21 recommendations made by the ACMD except its recommendation that cannabis should not be upgraded.
The ACMD report is called Cannabis: Classification and Public Health (2008). In other words, the main point of the report was to determine what classification it should be.
The whole point of classification is to […]
I had a Mac for a while. It didn’t really work for me, but I take the chacun a sont gout view of these things. If you like using a Mac and OSX, be my guest.
What I object to is some of the bull that’s written about Windows (or Linux).
There’s an article on ArsTechnica […]
From The Guardian
I will go on hunger strike and throw myself in front of the next horse at Ascot if he wins.
Only 5 days to go…
Remember that part in the earlier post about the threat of an additional bin tax? Well, a little chat with Trixy and a slice of Googling and I found something from letsrecycle.com from 2006:-
Dr Jackson also supported moves to charge householders a visible fee for the collection of waste. She said: This means that […]
John Redwood
Only this Labour government (with a bit of help from its friends, the European Commission), could think up such an unpopular mixture of policies towards recycling and bin emptying. They have produced the trebly toxic package of
1. Fortnightly collection instead of weekly or more frequently
2. Spy cameras on bins coupled with the Enforcement officers to fine […]
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