Fancy a Close Shave?

Occam - the razor of choice No, this is not a Gillette commercial. Rather it is a comment on Occam's Razor: first to Wikipedia - Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor[1]), entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter...

Butch and Sundance

Porkers United Will Never Be Defeated! Butch and Sundance were the two little porkers, called the Tamworth Two, who escaped from their lorry on the way to the abattoir and were reprieved, not turned into pork pies and...

Chill Out Chilcot

Tony Blair: veni, vidi, vici. I may be late but I'm very near the mark. The so-called Iraq inquiry finally got a chance to question Tony Blair and they muffed it big time. It seems amazing to me that the Chilcotters...

New Year's Resolutions

Make 'em - Break 'em Number One Instead of making New Year's Resolutions and then forgetting about them or breaking them, I resolve to make some and try to stick to them. Number Two Instead of expecting...

Merchant Bankers

Cockney Rhyming Slang. Well. We have the British Airways staff going on strike, the N 25 only being partly built, the A 11 imploding south of Thickthorn, the MoD probably closing an airbase and cancelling plans to upgrade...

South of Thickthorn

Thickthorn ThickiesFantastic news!  The plans to completely dual the A 11 are well and truly on the drawing board!  Actually, they have been on the drawing board for the best part of the last 30 years.Kindly stop muttering better late than never.What...

Missing Link?

Ardi Party! Human evolutionary theory has suffered a shock recently with the release of details of a possible direct human ancestor dating from 6 million years ago – Ardipithecus ramdius – or Ardi for short. Finding...

Bumper News Day

You can not be serious!!Firstly, as I expected, the story about cows attacking the farmer (a bit like man bites dog) was not “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. In a later paper we discover that the very...

Bovine Mayhem, Raccoon Terror!

Worrying! Strange to see in the paper yesterday two stories about animals attacking humans. Story one, from the local EDP, concerned a farmer being trampled by his own cattle. Number two – a woman in Florida...

Fry My Hide

Dogpatch Dudes The internet cannot find everything. Did you know that? I do – cause I've been looking on and off for ages trying to find my favourite cartoon from Lil Abner. And, I'm having no luck whatsoever....

Park and Ride Buses

I'm confused! Despite the fact that the number of old folks riding the buses for free seems to be exponential and a serious drain on the public purse, I'm only peripherally interested in the finances of the scheme – it's the...

NHS

Trouble! I'd really like to stay out of this one. No, I really would. When I turn on the TV and see my countrymen at Town Hall meetings almost coming to blows over heath care reform; when the news is full of half-truths,...

Aviva Cowards

What a lash-up? The Norwich Union Insurance Group (now know as Aviva) high-ups have really outdone themselves recently. Not only have they managed to upset the whole of East Anglia, not to mention their shareholders,...

Apocalypse Now - Apocalypse Again

Monumental Blunder! As the famous philosopher Santayana observed, "Those who ignore the lessons of history are destined to relive them." True then. True now. The recent deaths in Afghanistan of eight...

Revenge

Revenge - and not so sweet! Jack Straw's decision not to release a dying Ronnie Biggs on parole is a disgrace and shows how far the politicians can be out of step with reality. When assessing Biggs' suitability for...