As we all know, the London Borough of Barnet has dubbed itself ‘easyCouncil’ after taking a leaf out of budget airlines’ book and providing a very basic service as standard and charging for all manner of extras. Let us look at another budget airline, as reported in the London Evening Standard, as it copes with [...]

Andrew Gilligan has an interesting article in today’s London Evening Standard, trailing a PolEx report that won’t be available until tomorrow, suggesting that a highly effective boat service could be set up for £30m. I will look for the report tomorrow, but in the meantime I make three points. Firstly, Gilligan says Yet this would [...]

BBC News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution report that an effigy of Obama has been hung in Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains, GA (although both look like AP wire feeds). I am entirely sure that the great majority of people in the US are going to be outraged at the action. I am, though, going to [...]

One of my favourite YouTubers goes by the handle of Thunderf00t and he has uploaded an interview he did with Richard Dawkins. I also recommend Thunderf00t’s excellent and amusing series, ‘Why do people laugh at creationists?‘ and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is also on YouTube. xD.

Just over a year ago, I posted some predictions for MMIX. They were, with results, There will be an attempt to ‘test’ Obama militarily within his first year of office Not as I expected There will not be a General Election in the UK Correct There will not be a go-ahead for the third runway [...]

In 2008, the Psychics and Mediums Network posted some predictions for 2009. There will be an assassination attempt on Barack Obama (UPDATE: Looks like this one may have happened before the 2009 date predicted. There was a neo-nazi assaination plot foiled on 27th October 2008. Note that these predictions were posted on the 9th October [...]