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Photo-drone wars to come
In October, I posted this, provoked by seeing a drone in a London shop window. I said stuff like this: Something tells me that this gadget is going to generate some contentious news stories about...
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Total Surveillance photos
Following yesterday’s very generic, touristy photos of the Albert Memorial (although some of them did involve a breast implant), here is a much more temporary photo, of the sort most tourists wouldn’t...
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A tax infographic about and a meeting at my home about Hong Kong
Dominic Frisby: Frisby says that Dan Neidle will like this. I don’t know anything about Dan Neidle, other than this. But I like it. As much for the colours and its hand-done nature as for its content....
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Photos of Denise Ho at the ASI
Earlier this evening I attended an event at which Denise Ho answered questions put to her by an ASI guy, about the unfolding situation in Hong Kong. I photoed her: Very impressive. Short summary. The...
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Christmas tree with scaffolding
When it’s finished, it will look, according to the picture on the outside of the site (which is an outdoor hard copy of the first picture here), like this: Here is what it and its surroundings will...
View ArticlePathogen Resistance
XKCD.com has a cartoon up that looks at it all from their point of view. It’s tough being a Coronavirus, constantly persecuted by those sneaky humans. Got to this via Rob Fisher’s Facebook page. It was...
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Cycling out of Lockdown
Last Sunday, the gloriously sunny day when I photoed this reflection photo, I also photoed many other photos, as I walked to and around Parliament Square, and then along the River to Lambeth Bridge and...
View ArticleShelby Steele talks to Peter Robinson
I just watched this video of Shelby Steele being interviewed by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute. If, like me, you’ve not been paying attention to this man, this interview would be a good way to...
View ArticleOn Ex-Muslims and on the lack of social media omnipotence
Over the course of the last few days, Facebook suppressed Ex-Muslim TV but has now allowed it back on air again. Which provides me with a perfect excuse to write some topical commentary on the subject...
View ArticleAnother remarkable Trump speech
Here. I don’t agree that Trump is defeating The Virus, as he claims. I think it is fizzling out of its own accord. I therefore think that he overdoes the criticism of China, on this particular score....
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How London is protecting itself against the threatened Second Wave of The Plague
A friend (the one whom I refer to here as GD2S) iPhone-photoed this photo to nights ago, in Soho, London: The Plague is now over. The only thing London is now scared of is the damn “Temporary...
View ArticleAt least they seem willing to end Lockdown
From this tweet, concerning a piece behind the Telegrap paywall (thankyou Adriana Lucas) …: It’s rather reminiscent of Medieval physicians, attributing any sign of recovery to the effectiveness of...
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Is this duck the same weight as Amey Coney Barrett?
This duck has been in the news recently: The Babylon Bee did a piece just over a week ago about how Senator Hirono, also to be seen in the fake-photo above, brought a duck with her to the Congressional...
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I’m pretty sure that’s not the problem
I made my trip (see below) to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and the trip had the effect of making the state I was in, i.e. the reason I went, worse. Any posture is uncomfortable for me just now....
View ArticleIt looks and tastes like conventionally-produced chicken
A new restaurant is opening up in Tel Aviv: At a new restaurant in Tel Aviv called The Chicken, the chicken on the menu is grown from cells in a bioreactor in an adjacent pilot plant visible through a...
View Article“We believe passionately …”
Mick Hartley comments on the statement by Julie Birchill’s ex-publishers about why they cancelled her book: And you can almost guarantee that if someone states how they “believe passionately in freedom...
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Being offensive is not an offence and a public falsehood about the content of...
This: I, and many others, found this sign very offensive. Which means that it was “being offensive” and it broke its own rule. Some of those many others complained and Merseyside Police retreated:...
View ArticleA House of Lords speech defending women and defending the English language
This bit of video, lasting just under ten minutes, which I recently came upon here, is surely likely to get a lot more attention than it’s got so far: I like it because it is suffused with the very...
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Email problems: EIG2BA
I am suffering email problems just now. I can send them, but I can’t receive them. As of now, I am relying on The Guru to ensure that …: … which it surely will, eventually. Meanwhile, the only other...
View ArticleMcCloskey summarised by Scheidel
I have recently been reading Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel. Scheidel himself summarises the arguments in this book in this piece. Better yet,...
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