I favorited a YouTube video — Professor on sky news educates newsreader on some drug related facts http://bit.ly/68x4tF # Slides of Professor David Nutt's presentation to #SitP Westminster http://bit.ly/5mz11S/ # Thanks to @Stephen_Curry @josswinn & @Blue_Wode for RTing the slides from Prof Nutt's #sitp talk http://bit.ly/5mz11S/ # "Good afternoon, I'm Chris Smith, I'm the Labour [...]

Whether it is the eloquent or crass, whether you agree with it or not, the opinions of someone who has been wronged or has had a loved one killed are irrelevant to policy. I have nothing but sympathy for the families left behind by service personnel killed in the line of duty; my heart goes [...]

Come on over and listen to me interviewing the fabulous Ariane Sherine – thankyou, Ariane! The Pod Delusion is a podcast about interesting things. From scepticism to lefty liberal things, it’s commentary from a secular, rationalist, ‘Guardianista’, sort of perspective. A bit like From Our Own Correspondent but with more jokes. This week: Ariane Sherine [...]

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On Friday, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts. It’s legal and is mentioned in the fine print when you create your account. If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following: Settings, Privacy Settings, News Feed and Wall. Then Facebook Ads, [...]

Sedevacantists are a small minority within Catholicism who hold that Vatican II was illegitimate and so current Popes and the current Catholic church are shams. They base this, as I understand it, on three ideas. Firstly, the changes passed at Vatican II, particularly the removal of the doctrine of Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (nothing saved [...]

Professor David Nutt has kindly allowed me to put his presentation on estimating drug harms from Monday 16th. [SWF]http://www.davecole.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/westminter-sceptics-nov-09-.swf, 520, 390[/SWF] Click the image above to move to the next slide. You can also see this as a full-screen flash presentation, a PDF or a PowerPoint. Please note that these slides are copyright David Nutt [...]

RT @ProLondon Blog round-up – broken promises, bendies, cronies, airports, pqt http://bit.ly/4oMdVF # Belated #FollowFriday @prolondon @jourdemayne @jackofkent # What time does #sitp Westminster start tonight? # Should I have my iPod repaired or buy an Archos instead? # Are you still allowed to be an MP and an MEP at the same time? # [...]

In the small hours of Friday morning, vps.net, the people who host my servers, suffered a quite spectacular DDOS attack. There are, briefly, two things I’d like to day: firstly, if you’ve emailed me, please email me again as I may have missed your message. Secondly, VPS.net are a really good hosting company and I’m [...]