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Facebook and Faxes 

There is an amusing message flitting around Facebook. I have copied and pasted it below: For those of you who cannot cope with fuzzy images, it reads: ‘For those of my generation who do not, and cannot, comprehend why Facebook exists: I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles. […]

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Death as a Human Right

Eugenics is the new black.  A bill to authorise medically assisted suicide is being introduced in the Scottish Parliament. The establishment appears fully behind it. In the Daily Telegraph, Lord Jonathan Sumption, a former member of our supreme court, backs the idea “on balance” as being “morally justified”. In the Times, Matthew Parris, that weathervane

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British Silly Time

Did you perchance unintentionally sleep late or get an hour behind time this Easter Sunday morning?   If so, you will probably be one of hundreds of thousands of others who likely also forgot to advance their timepieces and did much the same – all as a result of the UK’s curious official bi-annual clock-changing

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AI Intelligence

On Intelligence

Intelligence is no more than a leg muscle. It may be thin and scrawny, but it can still be useful for certain scenarios like piano playing. It may be huge and bulging – useful for sprinting or scrummaging. It may be toned and sinewy – useful for ice-skating or ballet dancing. The fact is that

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What Next For Britain?

I have never worried about climate change because I was sure that humans would do something irredeemably stupid long before any possible consequences of a small change in the atmosphere. And lo, here they are doing countless irredeemably stupid things all at once. From a vast and expanding field of idiotic activities let us mention four forces,

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Food For Thought

Any avid reader of alternative news/current debate media will have assimilated almost by electronic osmosis a rapidly expanding list of current worries. These worries probably started with the Covid farce, “vaxx” outcomes, “climate emergency/Net Zero”, immigration, etc. etc., as well as personal pet-hates of choice. Philip Larkin’s “They Fuck You Up” (aka ’This be the

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The NHS ‘Reaches Out’

Following swiftly on from Rishy Sunak (temporary PM in name only now) “reaching out” for ideas with his dodgy questionnaire, I’ve today been touched (and not in a good way) to be the recipient of a letter from the hallowed NHS also “reaching out”. Clearly the joint sender’s of this appeal for my help, Raghib

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