NSA Under Scrutiny for ‘Orwellian’ Order
The news that the NSA has been collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans is an example of the genuine threat of ‘Big Brother’ governance in the digital era. While it shouldn’t surprise people that the government...
New Mulholland Sculpture
The Scots modern artist Rob Mulholland famous for he is stainless steel mirror artwork has just completed a new “sculpture” in Vyksa Siberia, consisting of stainless steel pipes forming a 13ft, semi-ordered rectangular cascade, which rises...
RBS Jekyll & Hyde
A preliminary Parliamentary Commission report on banking standards has allegedly called for the Royal Bank of Scotland to be broken in two, essentially dividing it into a ‘good bank’ and a ‘bad bank’.
Written by Chris White
The MPs and...
The Joy of Hay
‘The Glastonbury of the Mind’ is how Bill Clinton described the Hay Festival and while I would loathe to describe Glastonbury as mindless, the overt selling point of Hay is its intellectualism.
Authors, philosophers, poets, ecologists,...
Assad Defiant
In an interview with Lebanese Television the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad announced that the Syrian Government had made a contract with a Russian company to supply the Syrian armed forces with a Russian S-300 air defence missile system.
Written...
BBC’s Grave Error: Asghar Bukhari
Only hours after two Nigerian Islamists ambushed and hacked a serving British soldier to death in the streets of Woolwich as he was walking back to the Royal Artillery Barracks yesterday, the BBC made a catastrophic error by inviting on its...
The Black Hole, The Ultimate Dive
Whilst not necessarily the deepest dive, the Ultimate dive for explorer, Artic Diver and BBC presenter, Paul Rose, is the Black Hole at Andros in the Bahamas.
Already known for Dean’s Blue Hole, on Long Island, which is the deepest Blue Hole...
Iraq: 10 Years After
It’s been ten years since US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq on the pretext of deposing Saddam Hussein, a ruthless dictator purported to have weapons of mass destruction. Ten years since the ‘Shock and Awe’ bombardment ignited the skyline...
Luxor Balloon Accident Kills 19
British, French, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals are among 19 tourists reportedly killed in a hot air balloon crash near the Egyptian city of Luxor. The balloon was flying at 1,000 ft (300m) when it caught fire and exploded, plunging onto fields...
Chinese Suspicions
The relationship between China and the US has long had the tensions that ‘superpower’ relations tend to foster, but for the first time in a while, these tensions could become more overt and newsworthy. While Cold War levels of tension remain...
