Authoritarianism
Apollo 13 (Revised)
I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them. Here’s the second, on that well-known danger to Life [more…]
Science
20th Century
The .303 Pattern 1914 – the Best Battle Rifle the British Army Never Had?
Introduction The humiliations suffered by the British Army at the hands of untrained Boer irregulars during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 caused a great deal of concern at the War Office where questions were soon [more…]
America
Why the Push Is on to Make Pandemic Life ‘Permanent’
Today’s blog is incredible and a MUST READ! The author, Tom Mullen, hits it out the park. COVID-19 is new. But the reaction to the crisis is starting to look familiar. One year after Americans [more…]
Authoritarianism
Ice Station Zero (Revisited)
I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them. Here’s the first, which I’ve named after an Alistair [more…]
Economics
UK Electricity Bloodbath? Part Two
Last time in UK Electricity Supply Bloodbath? we concluded that, across the next decade, Britain’s positive electricity margin becomes a deficit as an older generation of nuclear and coal-fired power stations come to the end [more…]
Arts
How to Watch Cheap Television
Most of us will have a Tellybox, possibly several. I suspect a lot though will be paying through the nose for combinations of a TV package from Sky, Virgin, or other provider, add on Netflix, [more…]
Computing
Cnuteneering, Part Thirty One
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]
Authoritarianism
Yellow Boards
I received a picture from a cousin in New Zealand regarding the by passing of the rotten media and standing on the side of the road with placards. This seemed such a fantastic idea I [more…]
Economics
UK Electricity Supply Bloodbath?
The Market A market is a place where supply meets demand, where wants and needs meet goods and services. A perfect market would be nothing other than that but, apart from thee ‘n me, nothing [more…]