Big Brother (Pt.94 Of A Series)

September 7, 2009 at 6:27 pm

If you read The Sun you’ll believe that the web is crawling with dodgy characters and every mouse-click brings your daughter closer to a horrible fate at the hands of a 40-something tattooed truck driver from Idaho called Zac. Paranoia swiftly leads to market forces and in turn mean buying a […]

One In Three ‘Europeans’ Never Been On The Net

August 5, 2009 at 3:47 pm

Research from the European Commission and reproduced on The Register has found that one in three Europeans (probably “users within the EU” to be pedantic but accurate) have never used the internet. This is considered an improvement from 2007 when 40 per cent had never been online. 38 per cent […]

New Boys Toys: Indian Version

July 26, 2009 at 10:34 am

Bored with fighter aircraft and missiles? What do you get if you are a country with just about everything? How about your very own shiny new submarine to carry your nuclear missiles… What do you mean Not Got One Yet? Well now ya ‘ave, sunshine. India’s first home-made nuclear powered […]

Common Sense In Sweden

July 21, 2009 at 10:11 pm

If you had a filing cabinet in front of you for storing ideas, this one would go in the Bleedin’ Obvious drawer. For we learn from The Local, a Swedish newspaper published in English, that Iranian nationals have been banned from Swedish university programmes with ties to nuclear and missile […]

Telly Tax Mk.II

July 19, 2009 at 12:49 pm

Anyone who reads Biased-BBC knows that watching an political programme involves a gymnastic combination of holding your nose, pouring yourself a stiff drink and reaching for your wallet. To watch England beating Australia in the Ashes on Sky, one needs to pay the BBC their telly tax. However it (whisper […]

RADIO RADIO

June 28, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Most of us like to drive along with the radio on – it passes the journey! I’ve been driving long enought to have witnessed vast technical and aesthetic improvement in the state of car radios and the new ones are great. But, of course, that just can’t last under this […]