Archive for February, 2009
Appeal for party politics co-operation
The Nurse has been observing UK party politicians up to their usual tricks in the Houses of Parliament this week. Name calling, accusation and counter-accusation, boos and roars of derision. All highly unappealing.
In times of crisis, with the economy going to shit around their ears, they’re fiddling – and wasting an enormous amount of time and intellectual effort [...]Irresponsible Parents Cost Us Dearly
What on earth is going on? A couple of weeks ago we heard how a Californian mother had successfully given birth to octuplets. Americans were initially reported to be overjoyed about the births. But then it emerged that the mother already had six children under the age of 7, was single, unemployed and had been [...]
Childhood Ruined by Parents
A new report, commissioned by the Childrens Society, has just been published. Two years in the making this report makes it clear who is responsible for childhood obesity, increased violence and mental illness amongst children. We are (parents and grown ups).
Parents, paranoid about the dangers of playing outdoors, are responsible for imposing restrictions on their [...]World recession: are we ‘psychic’?
Rats appear, on a mysterious level, to be ‘psychic’
Last week New Scientist reported that rats in the US seem to ‘learn’ novel new behaviors that only rats in Europe have been exposed to… without any physical contact. Over thousands of miles, most of which is ocean. What’s going on – some kind of collective consciousness? Nobody knows. Yet.
Which set [...]UK Invaded by Snow
I just had to say something about this weather. We’ve been experiencing a taste of Russian winter here in the UK and systems have all but ground to a halt. Transport is totally disrupted, schools are closed, more than one in five workers didn’t make it in to work yesterday and there is more nasty [...]
