The Plashing Vole

That's it for today - I'm enjoying England's abject collapse against South Africa, but I'm hungry and there's ironing to...

So Ireland go out to New Zealand, comprehensively beaten - but then very few of Ireland's team are professional cricketers (or Irish, c...

Pharyngula notes that 'hello' has now been officially replaced in a Texan county by 'heaven-o' because of the first satanic...

Here's a bit of fun. The American Medical Association is desperate to stop Obama founding national health insurance because it's ...

The New Zealanders are giving Ireland a pasting - 38/0 from only 3.1 overs. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

This is available on a t-shirt from xkcd.com - the mouseover on the website says 'bonus points if you can identify the science'. Nea...

That petulant idiot savant Ronaldo has gone to Real Madrid for £80m. Meanwhile, my eyes are on Ireland v. New Zealand this afternoon. It sh...

Paul Flynn castigates the idiocy of the Afghan policy - the result of eight years of war is that 95% of heroin in Britain comes from a coun...

I didn't watch the football match last night because I was talking to interesting people and didn't want to watch a charmless bunch ...

Last night was a tale of bravery, tactics, guile and determination. In every area, we were completely outclassed. We must bow down to the ma...

Thanks to Mailwatch, which points out that this frightfully important story is illustrated by the worst bit of Photoshopping the world has e...

If you use it, you're a Twunt.

…or more accurately, on Saturday, you'll meet me. Several thousand other people too, of course, because I'm going to see Doves (the ...

I've always been a big fan of Tom Paine, the Norfolk thinker who made major contributions to the French and American revolutions with id...

Lynne Horn, a Scots teacher, has been banned from running a blog about her work - she specialises in using educational technology to reach ...

Hurrah! 14 book in the post today, the ones I bought from Bananas.co.uk for £19 including postage. I was summoned to the secretary's off...

Morning blogfans! I'm in meetings again today, but at least there are sandwiches provided. I'll do anything, frankly, for a free buf...

Kate reminds me that there's now no government department with the word 'education' in its title. So much for 'education edu...

Here's what to do about the BNP. Everybody knows they're smelly racist bastards, including people who voted for them. So let's t...

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