It seems the Islamic world is in uproar because last September a Danish newspaper printed some cartoon caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. For goodness sake, they’re just cartoons. Some people take their religion far too seriously - the root of many a problem in this world.
I understand that images of the prophet are banned […]
This is a post about perspective. Perspective is something that it is important to maintain. You may find that reading the popular press on a regular basis can undermine your sense of perspective. However, here is a little list that may help:
There have been 61 deaths worldwide from the H5N1 strain of Avian Flu over […]
So the BBC is asking for the licence fee to increase by 2.3% over and above inflation for the next seven years. This extra increase is largely to pay for the planned switch-over to digital tv in the UK.
I love the BBC. Radio 4 and the World Service are excellent radio stations that have […]
On the 7th April this year, royal assent was given to the Inquiries Act 2005. This act set up the legal framework under which public inquiries will be held in the future. The act provides that:
The chair of an inquiry will be appointed by a Minister.
Each member of the board of inquiry will be appointed […]
Our first lesson in journalism comes courtesy of the Observer, a sunday newspaper here in the UK. Suppose you are a budding journalist and your editor demands a story to fill some space on the frontpage. What do you do?
Easy. All you need to do is call up Ian Bell. Ian is the speed camera […]
Idly surfing the ‘net this evening, I stumbled across an intriguing site: www.pledgebank.com. It allows you to publicly pledge to do something, but only if other people pledge to do the same.
Current top billed pledge comes from Nicola (or ‘cola’ as she prefers to be known), who has pledged to donate 1% of her […]
On this interesting round-up of British blogs, the author comments that there don’t seem to be any bloggers who are actually putting the case for identity cards.
For the uninitiated, the UK Government has just brought forward a bill to introduce Identity Cards. These would initially be voluntary but eventually compulsory, and would incorporate some […]
At the time when CCTV cameras started springing up everywhere, I thought their effectiveness was being overstated. After all, scrutiny from the cameras could be readily circumvented by the simple expedient of wearing a hat. It never occured to me that the response would then be to ban hats. How can you ban hats? They’re […]