The US Congress has voted to cut funding to the IPCC, the bloated and corrupt UN organisation charged with producing scary graphs about climate change. Amusing graphic take on this development. Of course, the Republicans’ proposed changes […]
The US ambassador to London, Louis Susman, made an implicit attack on the UK’s attempts to welcome Col Gaddafi back into the international diplomatic fold in recent years. ‘I would suggest that to deal with [Gaddafi] […]
From the quite often amusing (but sometimes crude, and definitely not daily) Daily Grind: The Greens have greeted a left-wing think-tank’s report on ATM fees with a plan to ban the charges. The idea is based on […]
On the NPR (US public radio) website, Brian Reed writes condescendingly about the benighted residents of Kiribati. Even in a place as vulnerable as Kiribati, there are skeptics. “I’m not easily taken by global scientists prophesizing the […]
Ezra Dulis at Big Hollywood has posted a list of his favourite 25 songs of 2010. The list is in two parts, numbers 1-10, and numbers 11-25. This is Ezra’s number six – The Innocence Mission – God is […]
And it is right to be. Mohammed ElBaradei says that Israel signed a treaty with Mubarak, not Egypt. Not one of the parties or movements which could potentially form part of a new Egyptian government is friendly, […]