Song of the Day comes all the way from Bristol. ‘Picasso Face’ by Velcro Hooks was an instant hit with Team Podcart. Velcro Hooks explode with schizophrenic guitar jangles and audacious hooks. ‘Picasso Face’ has the ability to hit the mainstream hard and still maintain an underground appeal. With a propulsive intensity that is enough to [...]

Q:  Which one is the odd one out?  1. The Doors Of Perception. 2. Slavoj Zizek. 3. The X-Factor or 4. The Matrix   A:  Number 3.  The others actually understand their direct lineage back to Plato’s Caves allegory in The Republic. In the animation above Plato’s Caves text is narrated by Orson Welles.  In our hesitant new quantum era of scientific uncertainty […]

Amazing to see Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg over in Shetland on the first celebration of Norway's National Day since Utoya. Its really significant that the Premier has made what I think is the first ever formal trip to Shetland...

Another turbophobic myth dispelled When I started this blog fifteen months ago  I had no intention of championing Big Wind, an entity very likely to be every bit as self-seeking and environmentally slapdash as Big Oil or Big Nuclear. However, I do feel compelled  to devote a few electrons every now and then to refuting some [...]

The fact that race, not rape, has dominated discussion of the Rochdale rape case, says a lot about the state of society today. The event in itself is an abhorrent display of violence against women, but the reaction shows a far more widespread disease affecting society. We live in a rape culture.

Campaign Group ‘For A Better Europe‘ launched today ‘Rushing in to ratify a flawed and out of date Fiscal Treaty will be a mistake resulting in far reaching social and economic costs’ said Siobhán O’ Donoghue spokesperson for the campaign group ‘For A Better Europe‘. She went on to say ‘legally we have been told it is [...] […]

  Opinion by Graham Ennis Scottish independence: Vote Yes to leave the Titanic     I was impressed by the recent Scottish Times article, about the UK staring at the bleak future of a Lehman Brothers economic collapse. A collapse, it seems, where the entire UK state would sink like the Titanic....and of course, there simply would not be enough lifeboats for t […]