Apologies to those of you who use Internet Explorer and have got an “Aborted” message when visiting this website. Hopefully the issue is resolved now. I would have continued to be unaware of it but for Christine Clear and Rosemarie Rowley. Rosemarie sent me an email wondering if my website had moved. In Christine’s case, [...]
“From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – greetings!†– George Orwell, 1984 We are about to enter into a state where every digital step you take is recorded. At the end of March, the Government will introduce the most draconian [...]
It never fails to move me, and as Grace Wynne-Jones mentioned it in passing today, here it is again, the beautiful video and great words of the truly great Carl Sagan. May his spirit flourish as a sage in some distant, advanced pocket of the galaxy.
New Scientist (preview only, sub for full article) and The New York Times report that British Cabinet documents, published under regulations governing the release of secret papers after 30 years, reveal that then then British Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, suppressed knowledge that the plume from the fire at the atomic processing plant at Windscale (now [...]