'Television' Category
Science teacher insists the earth is less than 10,000 years old
Richard Dawkins highlights UK education scandal
Eminent (and eminently sensible) scientist and philosopher Richard Dawkins interviewed a chemistry teacher at a ‘well-respected’ Yorkshire secondary school on TV last night. A teacher who stated - clearly and unashamedly - that he truly believed the earth was less than ten thousand years old.
A creationist, he has the gall to drag his personal religious […]Stop China-bashing and enjoy the Olympics
The Nurse admires China and wonders at their tolerance of Western interference
The global economy is - inevitably - moving us towards a global morality. And the Western world appears to have stormed the moral high ground.
Snug in her cell watching the Olympics, The Nurse hopes the event will send a great big wave of worldwide goodwill in China’s direction. She’s sick and tired of […]We are not getting the real news.
“I wear this expression when I’m not sure whether to be excited or scared…”
We’re being fed news through a screen of total hysterica
The Nurse is well acquainted with rose-tinted glasses. She needs to be, locked up in here with water dripping down the walls and all those nutters groaning and banging in nearby cells. But she’s getting riled up about […]Ridiculous news part 2… The Nurse rants on
TV in prison isn’t always a benefit. The Nurse is finding the news particularly irritating at the moment. Thankful for the opportunity to vent, she scribbles by the dim light of a crescent moon, her paper criss-crossed with shadows. In the next cell, someone weeps and gnaws at the bars…
More things that make The Nurse very, very cross. And […]I named my (fill in the gap) Mohammed!
Mohammed
Fully aware of the risk of having a fatwa raised against her, The Nurse has spent the morning wrenching back common sense from the hands of the nutters. Mainly by re-naming things.
The prison cat, previously named Little Baby Jesus by the inmates, has been re-named Mohammed. Each inmate has signed an agreement to change their christian name to Mohammed (causing some confusion, soon remedied with a […]TV Fraudsters
The latest news on the ITV phone-in fraud scandal is that the serious fraud squad are looking into it. In an interview this week Sir Michael Grade described these issues as “a serious cultural failure” and pointed out that the report, produced by the city firm Deloitte, did not indicate that fraud had taken place.
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