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Actually quite entertaining, or not quite as terrible as it normally is. Lots of people were 'very offended', the poor darlings. Margaret Beckett (socialist), Caroline Lucas (green socialist), David Starkey (conservative?), Charles Kennedy (socialist), Andrew Lansley (red Tory), David Dimbleby (BBC, socialist).

PMQs 17th March

Last week Ashcroft, this week Unite. Goodnight Vienna will be along with comment shortly.

That thirty odd percent of you will vote for Brown is beyond me. I can't believe anyone with a thought in their head would vote Labour given what is widely known will happen after the election, Read more...

Labour's election campaign so far

Alan Johnson's 'dogshit' policy, soundbite politics. . . How they came up with a figure of £500 for insurance is beyond me, my household contents is less than that. Read more...

Columnists

PMQs live chat 17th March

House of Common Criminals PMQs live chat

Live chat PMQs with BBC2's The Daily Politics from 11:30 am:

Industrial Unrest

Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda management have so far failed to produce an agreement.

PMQs live chat 10th March

Big Ben PMQs live chat 10th March:

Live chat PMQs with BBC2's The Daily Politics (no relation) from 11:30 am, join us to see what Brown has to say about the latest allegations that troops did not receive adequate support in terms of equipment and funding:

Salted Slug

The cosmos wants to kill your car

This is probably a new one for those of you not involved with the semiconductor industry or the associated sciences, but here we go.
First off, I have to introduce the concept of a Single Event Effect (SEE). This is what happens when a highly energetic particle (neutron), present in the environment, strikes a sensitive region of an electronic device - disrupting its correct operation. Read more...

The Large Hadron Collider, small step or giant leap?

Earth, Nov. 2009 I’m off to Oz tomorrow, and as they’re likely to fire it up whilst I’m away, I thought it best to fire out another LHC- post.

Last time I gave a run-through of the concepts and science involved with that there hadron smasher, but now I’m going to talk about some of the engineering involved Read more...

Single atom transistor

What these guys have done is very cool. Here’s the abstract.

Stephen Lathwell

The Transition Luton Hustings Speech

The newspapers stated I created a stir during Transition Luton with my introduction speech. So here's the script I prepared.

Anthropogenic or Man-Made Global Warming - Lies, Lies, Lies. Read more...

New Scientist about-face

Well, as said before, I don't like New (Nu) Scientist, as it has an uncritical bias for the Environmentalist 'Man-Made' Global Warming Agenda. So I was surprised to read on Page 3 of this week's edition a criticism of the IPCC. Read more...

Irish Politics are a Sobering Lesson

I would like to consider Ireland’s politics in juxtaposition to the BNP and other extremist organisations and Esther Rantzen, who are standing as candidates for election for Luton South MP.

Blogs

Twitter: New tool to share tweeting locations

Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.

A new feature unveiled Thursday gives Twitter users the option of including their location with the assorted musings posted on the Internet messaging service. Read more...

Bloggers' appeal against sentence rejected

A court in Azerbaijan has rejected the appeal of two bloggers who were sentenced to prison last year in a case that supporters say was politically motivated.

The bloggers are opposition activists in a country where independent media and opposition parties have faced persistent pressure. Read more...

Blogging eats PCs

Driver problems are relatively frequent, hard drive failures less so. The problem is that the two can easily be confused, especially if your disk takes a few days to die.

Of course once that happens, you're knackered and it's new disks and a full restore or reinstallation. . . . .

Like I haven't anything better to do.