“Second, reporters are messengers – their job is to tell, as accurately as they can, what has been said, with the benefit of such insight as their experience allows them to bring, not to second guess whether what is said is right.” Laurence, Jeremy. “Dr Goldacre doesn’t make everything better” The Independent on the Web [...]

You can read the dirty details in Amnesty’s press release: Amnesty ‘disappointed’ by FT’s decision to pull ad targeting Shell To understand just how bad things in the Niger delta are, Amnesty have produced this video.

We’re currently looking to move and have been assessing different London boroughs to get an idea of where we’d like to move to and what the change to our cost of living would be. It has surprised me that there is such a great range of council tax rates across the boroughs, so I thought [...]

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent [...]

On this day, the 9th of April, 1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel is born in Portsmouth. Creator of the Great Western Railway, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Thames Tunnel and many more great achievements of the Industrial Revolution; Happy Birthday Issy! Via: Wired