I’ll see you there…
[Stephen Lynch - Special Olympics]
I’m busy writing essays, back ASAP!

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“Voters will be asked to produce photographic identification at polling stations under controversial proposals from the Electoral Commission to combat fraud.Sam Younger, the commission’s chairman, told The Times that there was an urgent need for greater security at the ballot box following new safeguards for those voting by post.He suggested that voters should produce a [...]

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Alcohol Concern calls for parents who allow their children under 15, in their own homes, to drink alcohol to be prosecuted for doing so. Currently it is illegal to give alcohol to children under five, but Alcohol Concern wants it raised by a decade. They also want alcohol adverts to be banned before the watershed [...]

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Life is 10,000 bars of chocolate, 74,802 cups of tea, 123,205,750 words, and 2,475,576,000 seconds. On average, anyway.
It’s really very interesting.
In our life we will eat 15 pigs, 21 sheep, 4.5 cows and 1,201 chickens. We will drink 10,351 pints of beer and 1,694 bottles of wine - and produce 149 litres of vomit. We [...]

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According to a study, “[m]any university students in the UK lack basic understanding about condoms“. Of the 2,200 students who took part in the survey:

One in 10 did not know how to put a condom on properly
16% of students mistakenly believed using two condoms at once was safer than using just one.
Almost a quarter think [...]

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Rumours that Ted Heath was gay, started by Brian Coleman, a Conservative London Assembly member, made in an online column for the New Statesman, have flooded the media. He claimed that Heath was “supposedly advised to cease his Cottaging activities in the 1950s when he became a Privy Councillor”.
How is this important, however? Who really [...]

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Everyone has different opinions on religion, which is fine and all to the good. The problems come when you get absurd, evidently quite thick, dogmatic idiots who write things like this. Quite how they can possibly resolve some of their racist, sexist, misogynistic and, quite frankly, disgusting views with Christianity is beyond me.
How stupid are [...]

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This one is less of a quote about about a specific historical event or issue and far more of an analysis of how and why a European identity has not developed - and if it does, that it will take time. There is no historical European identity, but lots of fragmented national and cultural identities. [...]

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Why is St. George’s Day celebrated so little? Why is it not a public holiday, like St. Patrick’s Day is in Ireland?
The only people who appear to celebrate St. George’s Day is the Scout Movement, who went on parade all across England yesterday. We should all celebrate it.
Part of being British is celebrating our differences [...]

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Via Not Saussure, I have come across this fantastic optical illusion dragon. It is amazing how a simple sheet of paper can cause such an effect!

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