Here’s a jolly interactive map. It’s able to show you, country by county, how tolerant they are when it comes to free thinking. From the
Month: November 2013
Mark Dean is a Radio Caroline North hero
For whatever reason, last night on BBC Radio Lancashire, which is simultaneously broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester, the Monday to Thursday Late Show (10pm to
My ‘special personal attention mail’ folder
My life is sorted. Thanks to some kind people who I didn’t know before going through a folder in my email system called ‘Spam’, my
We need to stop our obsession with North America
The British TV and radio news, the British press and the British entertainment industry is dominated by North American products. Quite often the lead headline
The bullies always win
There’s a misconception that quietly asking for something gets it. This is a lie. The big lie is that democracy and the legal process achieves
Time to kill off the pigs in the middle
There’s this Director of a Cleaning Company. He drives a Bentley, has a £2 Million house in Cheshire, and takes extended holidays all around the
Television, the drug of the nation
In many respects and to many people, I am a weirdo. I don’t conform to their norms, I’m different to them, and so this confuses
Innocent until proven guilty, but…
Quite a few ‘famous names’, well, for some it’s ‘used to be famous names’, are fingered and in the process of waiting for court dates
The purge of humanity is written in stone
THE MESSAGE OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES 1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. 2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
The case of the missing leg, part two
I previously included an article (here) on England’s England about how I had photographed a human leg on a sand dune adjacent to a Ministry
The case of the missing leg, part one
Not that I’m paranoid or a trouble-maker or anything, but I do like to watch the Ministry of Defence top secret area not far from
Grassing is good
‘Grassing’ is good. No, honest, it’s good to be a ‘grass’. It’s only those who are doing something wrong that want you to believe that
The druggie scrounger midnight cash machine parties
At just before midnight most weekday nights, the scally cash machine parties begin in Liverpool. Out come the freaks, old, young, children and babies in
The 2014 Josh Calender is here!
I wish I could draw. I can’t. I wish I could capture the ultimate moment in witty cartoon. I can’t. But, when it comes to
Are TV News presenters and reporters mad?
Someone somewhere (probably in America) started a really really stupid trend. Now they are all copying it. Have you noticed it? It is very very
Why ‘scallies’ all smell of old lady’s wee
It’s dead easy to spot the destroyers in Liverpool’s urban areas. The ‘scallies’, as they are called, all wear the same caps and same dull
Humans that fear natural climate evolution
There’s an irrational fear of nature that has dogged our maturing as a species. Before singularity gods replaced the gods that inhabited volcanoes and/or storms
Weird poisoned people
Why are some people weird? I’ll tell you: It’s usually simply down to the poisons they either unknowingly or knowingly ingest. Years and years ago
When shooting the enemy is murder
(A guest article by Bemused from Bermondsey) Marine A has been found guilty of murder. He killed somebody using his weapon that was issued to
Red Poppy, White Poppy
I don’t wear a poppy. It is not a sign of disrespect. I just don’t wear anything ever as an indicator of how wonderful I
All the things caused by global warming
There’s an amazing site the keeps a ‘warmlist‘. It’s here The ‘warmlist‘ is a record of things that have been blamed on ‘global warming‘. And,
Apostrophe abuse
I don’t think I’m a grammar Nazi. I mean, frequenting fora and the internet generally, speaking to others via text, and so on, does expose
The starving boy and the missionary
In 1980 Mike Wells took this powerful photograph of a missionary holding the hand of a starving Ugandan boy. In so many ways it almost
Water shortage panic to replace climate change panic
It’s coughing and it’s spluttering but the long running meme about man made global warming is no longer the priceless, “Oh my god it’s worse
The Blue Screen of Death
The Blue Screen of Death is something I recall from the days of computers working to a central server, typically managed by IT departments that
How odd is Radio England UK?
So, a radio station using the name ‘England‘ has got to be cool, right? ‘England‘ is such a good name. No? Erm, well I’ve been
Sexual predator anoraks
A lot of people who had their 15 minutes of fame back in the 1960s or in some way worked within sniffing distance of the
The Energy solution
(A guest article by Bemused from Bermondsey) A lot has been made recently of energy prices to the consumer with politicians shouting loudly what they
Collective paranoia is going … or is it?
So … no space aliens arrived to eat us then? That means my entire article (here) was wrong. You have to admit that it’s unusual
Begging pays more than MPs earn
Apparently the average beggar can earn about £30 an hour. Hey, that’s the equivalent of £1,200 a week, or £5,200 a month, which is £62,400