Is this how the Great Pyramids were built? Inside-out? A fascinating 3D presentation of the theory can be seen here (from which the image above is taken). The theory certainly appears to have a significant amount of merit, though I am neither an Egytologist or an engineer!

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David Milibland, ‘gay icon‘, and who believes that he is in touch with the “I can” generation (despite no such generation existing - all generations have “I need”, “I want” and “I can” parts [the best evaluation of this I've read is this post by Bel]), has been told that was he to stand against [...]

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If only this was perfectly true! Usually I tend not to do more than I have to…

You Are a Great Student

You aren’t afraid to crack the books when you need to, and you make your education a true priority.You could become a PhD in anything, if you set your mind to it. There’s no limit [...]

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Absolutely hilarious!

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Now this looks cool. The iconic Che Guevara style portrait adapted to feature Margaret Thatcher instead. Genius! And available on a t-shirt! I’m going to have to get myself one of them!

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No matter how much time I have, or how much work I do before hand, I always seem to end up writing essays the night before they’re due in. Every time I say I won’t, and yet every time I do exactly the same. It’s never intentional, and I always start with plenty of time [...]

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As Britain is turned into a Big Brother state, with more and more surveillance cameras, information databases, and the proposed ID cards. We have 1% of the world’s population, but 20% of it’s CCTV cameras. A report by the Royal Academy of Engineering painted a stark future:
“It is not entirely absurd to imagine that supermarkets’ [...]

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“One of Britain’s leading churchmen yesterday urged Tony Blair to apologise on behalf of Britain for its part in the slave trade. The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, urged the prime minister to go further than he has so far. Mr Blair this month expressed regret for Britain’s role in slavery, but did not make [...]

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The Times reports that a pensioner who invested £155,000 with Michael Brown’s company, 5th Avenue Partners, which Michael Brown later gave to the Lib Dems as part of the £2.4million donation of other people’s money.
“The Times has established a money trail from Mr Watts [the pensioner] via a Swiss trustee and a Danish businessman to [...]

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“Police officers investigating the cash-for-honours scandal wanted to interview Tony Blair under caution but backed off after being warned that it could lead to his resignation, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.Allies of Mr Blair indicated to Scotland Yard that his position as Prime Minister would become untenable if he were treated as a suspect, rather [...]

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