Computing
Learn to Code
With UBI now very much having entered public consciousness and provoking equal measures of alarm and disdain on the mainstream political right I cannot help but wonder to myself what the right propose as an [more…]
Science
Authoritarianism
A Moral Dilemma
On Sunday last week (27th February), Peter Hitchens informed his readers that he had taken the Covid jab, which sparked fury amongst some and disbelief among others. Hitchens stated that ‘I did not do it [more…]
Authoritarianism
Dr Feelgood (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Vaxx)
So………….good news, peeps! It appears that the Big Pharma Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid !! It’s an absolutely safe, non-experimental, messenger-RNA vaccine that teaches your cells to produce [more…]
19th Century
John Scott Russell
Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to go for a horse ride along a canal towpath. You see a canal barge making its way along the canal and in front of the barge [more…]
Fiction
The Tortures of the Quarantined
Simon Marmeladov was in Greece learning Greek. Because Santorini tends to be rather hot in June, the lessons started at seven in the morning and finished at eleven. This arrangement suited Simon who had become [more…]
Democracy
Racism – The Root of All Evil
There was a time when the love of money was the root of all evil. Then socialists in schools tweaked that lesson ever so subtly and suddenly, unnoticed, money was the root of all evil. [more…]
Politics
PROOF – The Government is Your Enemy!
Science is the shield of the politician. “We must follow ‘the Science’”. Perhaps it is the Oxbridge Etonian standards in education of UK leadership: the politics, the philosophy and the (Keynesian) economics that allow them [more…]
Computing
Cnuteneering Part Nine
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
Informed Consent – Experimental Vaccines
I have had many difficult conversations during 2020. None more so than with my family regarding vaccines. A particular conversation that I remember related to the coverage of the COVID19 China virus (SARS-COV-2) in the [more…]