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You remember The Corrs ? With their dancey-pop-folk-rock tunes ploughing an unerring laser-calibrated furrow down the middle of the road? Ev...

Two things spring to mind seeing this headline on the BBC website : Firstly, that's not particulary newsworthy, surely? Prisons are big ...

Here's a little exercise in scepticism and critical thinking for you, just to demonstrate how important it is, and how it is in fact the...

A couple of drink-related things for you. Firstly, I purchased a four-pack of Brains SA from Tesco the other day. Nothing very unusual in t...

I thought the name of Michael Buerk's guest on Radio 4's The Choice rang a bell when it was trailed during the Today programme that...

A bit shout out to my main man Jann for directing to me to the A.V. Club's film flops hall of fame in response to my post referencing ...

I spotted an excellent phrase on one of the Pharyngula discussion threads earlier, which describes very succinctly the creationists' vi...

I had to do a quick run down to Tesco to pick up some lunch supplies earlier, and happened therefore to be in the car with Radio 4 on betwe...

I seem to have accumulated a few foody pics on the camera, so here they are with a few explanatory recipe notes. Spanish Stew & Tortilla...

As we discovered yesterday , if there's one thing that we know about scientists, it's that they are godless killing machines and col...

In linking to the excellent New Humanist blog in yesterday's post I noticed that they are currently inviting nominations for the 2009...

It's difficult to tear your hair out while at the wheel of a car on the motorway, and just as well as I have little enough of it to spar...

Conservative party candidate and current source of minor media frenzy Elizabeth Truss, and Irish rugby hero (and their saviour yet again o...

By way of a tribute to Edward Woodward , who died today , here's the climactic scene from the classic 1973 film The Wicker Man . Just t...

G. by John Berger. John Berger 's career and public profile follows an interesting trajectory: painter and art critic and occasional no...

So when I read in the papers on Monday that both of the two £90 million Euromillions enormo-rollover jackpot-winning tickets were bought in ...

I've just had the misfortune to witness the final stages of the X Factor sing-off, and with reference to John & Edward's perfor...

Here's something I was discussing at work earlier and which might prove useful: how to link to a YouTube clip at a specific starting tim...

More interesting footnotes to the drug advisor sacking fiasco : firstly this article in the New Scientist by David Nutt himself presents a...

Couple of further bits on the government drug advisor fiasco - firstly Keith Vaz steams in with a textbook display of Just Not Getting It...