Inchbrakie

Utter Bloody Folly: Part I of a series

2007-03-18T20:56:00.000+00:00

I should be found here come midsummer weekend this year, all so that I can end up with a walk like a decrepit John Wayne courtesy of the Styrkeproven. More details to follow, if not even it's very own blog. I might even have found out what Styrkeproven means. I have one or two ideas of what it might end up meaning. Answers on a postcard please.

Trivial ethical dilemmas

2007-03-18T20:18:00.000+00:00

Strange, an article about waste food in the Guardian and no mention of the methane that it will produce when for the most part it inevitably ends up in a landfill site. The methane is a result of anaerobic decomposition and is apparently one of the main culprits when it comes to so-called greenhouse gases. The obvious answer for some waste food-stuffs at least would be that sacred cow of the

Another gun post

2006-03-14T21:16:00.000+00:00

An interesting post over at Gun Culture. Not so sure about the book's title though.

A misplaced sense of decency stifles debate

2006-03-14T20:07:00.000+00:00

Some of the assertions that are made in this article by Dr Mick North and carried on the BBC website are so clearly incorrect that I can only imagine that some sort of misplaced sense of "decency" prevents them being more assertively challenged by journalists (whose job it is to do this sort of thing):If guns were less easily available they would be less likely to be misused, and so everything

Beckett lets the cat out of the bag.

2006-03-14T19:41:00.000+00:00

From Pendennis in Sunday's Observer. 'Many Labour opinion-formers, particularly those favoured by Gordon Brown, saw foxhunting as the first step. There are ongoing private discussions about how to stop the fishing and shooting,' says a lobby source. 'They're terrified, though, of losing four million fishermen's votes in one fell swoop, so are proceeding with great caution.'