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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Capital Crimes: Honesty Doesn't Sell Cars

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Volkswagen, the so-called "Peoples' Car" company originally created by the Nazi Deutsche Arbeitsfront in 1937 , is in cri...
Saturday, 19 September 2015

Despatches from the Dustbin of History

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This will be a brief post as the Lib Dems are barely worth a mention now. But the last few days have seen a smattering of risible press...
Sunday, 6 September 2015

All These Moments Will Be Lost in a Shower of Cash: On The Bladerunner Sequel

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"Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. More human than human is our motto." - Dr Eldon Tyrell A sequel to the 1982 scie...
Monday, 31 August 2015

Better Than Them

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Nazis on trial, Nuremburg 1946      We are used to the media twisting stories, but few stories are more emotive than Osama Bin Laden an...
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Sunday, 30 August 2015

The Human Tide

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Weeping refugee in Kos with his children - the face of the future? This week has seen yet more appalling news about the deaths of hundr...
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Sunday, 23 August 2015

Pennies from the Heavens

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The Weather Forecast is being put out to tender. So the Meteorological Office has lost its contract with the BBC to provide and pre...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Pulp Fiction - DWP at Work

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So what we always knew is now admitted. The Department of Work & Pensions tells lies. Picture - Philip Absolon  In this case, i...
Saturday, 15 August 2015

This Plastic Earth

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Our waters are filled with plastic, the permanent, poisonous and deadly detritus of our "convenient" way of life. Two yea...
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015

The Gentlemen's Agreement

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FORMER NU-LABOUR PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR ON THE JEREMY CORBYN CAMPAIGN FOR LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY: “I wouldn’t want to win on an ol...
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Sunday, 9 August 2015

The Men Who Saved The World - Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov without whose courage and quick thinking our world might be long gone. Today we remember the ato...
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Friday, 7 August 2015

Labour and Austerity - the Movie

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Teaser trailer coming up... .
Thursday, 6 August 2015

Destroyer of Worlds - Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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We commemorate today the dropping of the atomic bomb, code-named Little Boy , by the US Air Force on the Japanese city of Hiroshima seve...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

The Thrill of the Kill

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They are pests, aren't they? Sometimes they cause a bit of damage or get in they way of what we want to do - so, you see, it actually h...
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