The Strange Death of British Liberalism

The resignation of Tim Farron as Leader of the Liberal Democrats comes at the end of an election in which his thoughts on gay sex marred a week or more of campaigning. Far too much in an election campaign of only seven weeks. Once an old interview of Tim Farron squirming his way around the…

UK Election 2017 EXIT POLL – Hung Parliament

The exit poll for the UK Election 2017 is predicting a hung parliament. Meaning no party will have a majority. Exit polls have been wrong in the past, but not by a great deal. The Conservative party could still achieve a majority but it will not be what Theresa May wished for when she called…

The Guardian’s Dishonest Use of the Word Epidemic

The Guardian has conducted an investigation into sexual harassment on UK university campuses.  The word they have chosen to describe their findings is ‘epidemic’. In fact the title of the article is “Sexual harassment ‘at epidemic levels’ in UK universities”. Making you think it must be pretty high. Well before we go on let us…

PewDiePie – A Racist?!

The Wall Street Journal published an article deriding recent videos by YouTube sensation PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, due to Nazi and anti-Semitic content used for comedic ends. Kjellberg has the largest and most watched channel on YouTube at 53million subscribers, making him a juicy target for sensationalism. The WSJ interprets the inclusion of such…

Philip Davies is a good choice for the Women and Equalities Committee

Philip Davies, Conservative MP, and Caroline Lucas, Green MP, where recently interviewed jointly on the BBC following Davies appointment to the Women and Equalities Committee for which Lucas seemed quite disappointed about but without a clear reason. For the record I would argue Davies is a good pick precisely because he has a different ideological background…

Stop blaming Russia for your failures

A British politician, Ben Bradshaw MP, of the Labour Party has spouted some utter nonsense. He has claimed Russia “probably” interfered with the EU referendum early this year. Not only does he make this claim but also admits that there is no evidence for it in the following sentence. If you hold this view privately,…

Austria Re-run Election Results

Finally Austria has re-run its election between the independent (former Green) candidate Alexander Van der Bellen and the Freedom Party of Austria candidate Norbert Hofer. The election was originally held in May this year. The Austrian Constitutional Court found that postal votes had been improperly counted, that votes had been annulled in 20 out of…

Overwatch: Mei is cold-blooded.

Overwatch is a great game. Lots of fun, competitive, and so far, for me, not that much toxic chat like other team based games. *cough* League of Legends *cough*. Mei A character by the name of Mei is a seemingly shy, glasses wearing, slightly chubby woman. Her weapon of choice is a gun that blasts…

Dongles, Dongles Everywhere… maybe?

A bad tech ramble. With every big shift in an Apple product, whether the iMac from 1998 removing the floppy disk drive, the 2008 MacBook Air only having 2 USB ports, or the removal a DVD Drive in the MacBook Pro in 2012 there is backlash. Why? Because people don’t like change, fundamentally speaking. All…

Victoria, Australia to start teaching ‘male privilege’ in schools

Victoria, Australia is planning to start a compulsory course in primary and secondary schools on ‘respectful relationships’. An honourable goal, and possibly necessary right now. However, it instantly falls over itself and is destined to fail. It does contain some excellent material, about laws, UN Resolutions, and laws of countries other than Australia, as well…