I wrote a little while ago about one Peter Davies, member of the English Democrats and Mayor of Doncaster. I thought his policies were, ahem, a little short-sighted. Seems that he now agrees with me. As Angry Mob reports, he said he’d cut funding for Doncaster Gay Pride but has now realised that was stupid [...]

Alan Turing, OBE, did a great deal to hasten the end of World War Two through his work at Bletchley Park and the design of the bombe – the machine used to break three- and four- rotor Enigma cyphers. He’s also known for the Turing Test of artificial intelligence – can a machine convince a [...]

Unfortunately, work is keeping me away from Twitter. # RT @meadwaj @Cavalorn: The NHS rebuts all the blatant lies about it told by the US cons: http://tinyurl.com/nqdqzj #welovethenhs # It would appear that Ted Kennedy has died. # RT @BorisWatch @MayorOfLondon 'Shocked by last nights images from Upton Park – Absolutely appalling' – *cough* Bullingdon [...]

Donal Blaney writes about a sort of division within the Conservative Party. In short, Mr Blaney objects to a large part of David Cameron’s repositioning of his party as progressive conservatives. The bulk of his argument is that liberalism and fascism both descend from progressivism, and so are alike. I may well pick up a [...]

xD.

The headline on the front page of the new, positive London Evening Standard reads 10 troops died and ‘only 150 Afghans voted’ Note the quotation marks. What’s inside them is never referenced to anyone. The ‘story’ is that only 150 people voted in Babaji. A second story is that ten British soldiers died in Operation [...]

Who's going to Skeptics in the Pub London tomorrow? #sitp # John Band shows that even if the US paid for all pharma R&D, it would amount to 2% of the US healthcare bill http://bit.ly/daLlC # It took me 9.58 seconds to write this. # 85% of "85% of tweets are pointless" tweets are pointless [...]

The joy of Twitter comes from its brevity. You can quickly read a few tweets and publish one yourself while you’re waiting for that PDF to open or for the 8.02 to arrive at Stevenage. However, I’m sure we’ve all been in the situation where we have something we desperately need to tell the world [...]

It’s ‘A’-level results day and I’m sure that the op-eds have already been written saying that exams are being dumbed down. The more responsible newspapers have probably prepared articles saying that the young of today are more stupid than ever in case results worsen. Simultaneously, there are perceived problems with too much alteration to the [...]

Ahead of tomorrow’s poll, I thought it might be useful to look at who’s still in the race for the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Runners and riders come below the fold along with a brief comment from me.