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Woolwich knife attack is not terrorism

Yesterday a British soldier was attacked by two men with butchers' knives on a street in Woolwich, south-east London, and killed in broad daylight in public view near to a primary school not long...

Can’t eat on £1 a day? Cheat!

BBC News – How to eat healthily on £1 a day This rather hilarious article represents a BBC journalist's ostensible attempt to live on £1 worth of food a day. You'll notice that the...

Anti-vaxers, ME and desperate people

Recently there has been a major outbreak of measles in South Wales, thought to be largely the result of large numbers of parents not getting their children vaccinated during the MMR scare of 1998....

Longer school times are not child-friendly

Michael Gove proposes longer school day and shorter holidays | Politics | guardian.co.uk Michael Gove, the current education secretary, has announced extended school days and longer terms, allowing schools to stay open until 4:30pm...

Freedom for Jenny Hatch

Margaret Jean "Jenny" Hatch is an American woman, aged 29, with Down's syndrome. Until early last year, she lived independently in Newport News, Virginia, and had been working in her friends' store. She had...

Ed Balls

Now that I've got your attention … There's currently a measles outbreak in South Wales, the reason for which is that a lot of parents didn't vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine during...

Thatcher cannot be judged on the 1970s

BBC Question Time from Finchley, north London, 11th April 2013 (available in UK until 11th April 2014) Last night the BBC's weekly Question Time programme was filmed in Finchley, the area of north London...

Thatcher dead

Only yesterday, someone tweeted that when asked where he was when he heard that Margaret Thatcher had died, the answer was he was on Twitter on all five occasions. Why people publish hoax death...

A scientific approach

Taking Up Space: Women vs. Men | You think I just don't understand, but I don't believe you. Cathy "Bug" Brennan, someone who I have heard described as one of the most extreme and...