Being of the traditional kind, my day typically begins when I wake up. Due to the combination of pigeons (Satan’s own alarm clock), noisy neighbours and my new weather-inspired policy of sleeping with all windows open, today this happened at the ungodly hour of nine.
After the necessary rituals of early morning (shower, breakfast, shouting at [...]
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In an interesting attempt to use the Walkman’s 30th birthday to promote bullying, the BBC has given 13-year-old Scott Campbell a Walkman for a week instead of his regular iPod. As Scott does not have an interest in modern history, nor a page in the BBC magazine to fill, he is understandably not very impressed [...]
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The Guardian, ever at the forefront of British news, published the official government plans in case of a nuclear attack during the cold war.
Although some of the plans have been revealed before – including earlier this year the scripts that would have been broadcast by the BBC in the event of a nuclear war, instructing [...]
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The BBC news magazine has a feature titled ‘Who, what, why?’, in which modern developments are explained, such as the anti-stab knive (hint: they removed the sharp, stabby bit). Not being above blatant creative theft and being half made of Dutch people myself, I hereby present the ‘Who, how, what, why’ of the Dutch.
Who are [...]
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For a quick introduction to this series, see “The truth is not out there #1“.
Today’s revelation is that energy can be generated for free, but the man is suppressing that. The man obviously represents the oil companies and OPEC, who have a vested interest in keeping you paying for petrol. Because they get the money [...]
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
I am deeply grateful for the distinguished prize awarded to me and specifically for the 10 million Swedish kronor associated with it. Surely, winning this prize is a great honour, but no amount of honour will prevent me from having to get up [...]
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For a quick introduction to this series, see “The truth is not out there #1“.
Today’s conspiracy is that William Shakespeare is in fact “Sheikh Zubair from Basra, Iraq“. For those of you who have never heard of Sheikh Zubair, you are not alone. I had never heard of the man either, but the internet knows [...]
For a quick introduction to this series, see “The truth is not out there #1“.
The next conspiracy theory I’ll uncover here is that on 9/11, a Boeing 757 did not actually hit the pentagon. The conspiracy goes that some other means was used to explode the pentagon and that Muslim terrorists were not responsible for [...]
The Independent frequently takes some time out from aspiring to be a quality newspaper, to aspire to be a quality tabloid. This leads to such wonderful features as this weeks “The ten best conspiracy theories.” The Independent has clearly been taken over by GCHQ, because everything they write about these conspiracies is just a bunch [...]
One of the small pleasures in my life – besides eating apple pie with ice cream and fox hunting – is to look at the google analytics report for my blog and see which search queries have lead people to my site. To learn more about my readership, obviously. Not to laugh at them. That [...]
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