Having read Polly Toynbee’s spiteful article attacking the Lib Dems and Tories for opposing Home Information Packs, I took no small amount of pleasure to find Ruth Kelly capitulating and putting the scheme back. What annoyed me most about Toynbee’s article was that it stuck religiously to the rote of “something must be done, this… Continue reading HIP with Lib Dem policy
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The Great Wi-Fi Swindle
Last week, BBC’s Panorama did an expose on the Scientologists, a cult that believes we are all imprisoned space aliens. This week, the same programme is purporting to prove that wi-fi fries your brain. And so, the cosmic balance of the BBC’s sensible/face-slappingly idiotic halves is once again restored. I don’t really know where to… Continue reading The Great Wi-Fi Swindle
Factchecking Durkin
Rob Fenwick points me in the direction of the Great Global Warming Swindle website. I’ve got my foot out of the door and was barely looking at the website, but two inaccuracies screamed out at me, one mere exaggeration, the other a bonkers, brainless, stupid factual error that only a complete moron would commit. Claim… Continue reading Factchecking Durkin