It’s more than uncommon for anything to serve to demoralise me to any extent, but the existence of the necessity of a supposedly ‘personal’ statement in the UCAS university application process. The word ‘personal’ in ‘personal statement’ surely implies that the statement should be a reflection of the whole of the writer’s personality: instead, it [...]
Rape victims told alcohol consumption may cost them compensation.
And I don’t understand the outrage. You get drunk and you lose your ability to defend yourself, you lose certain awarenesses of your surroundings, you become more vulnerable: but all of this is voluntary – nobody forced these women to drink. Their drinking led to an increased [...]
This scares me no end.
20% of supposedly intelligent, fully trained medical professionals polled in America believe that ‘God’ (whatever form that construct would take) is capable of reversing terminal prognoses. These people who have studied the diseases concerned; seen first hand their effects and their pathology; these people who should understand why ‘terminal’ is given [...]
My Mr. Dialysis and Astro Reality articles on Starve in Heaven caused somewhat of a shitstorm. This, in all honesty, was kind of the intention; but some of the responses really made my days. The fanboy/fangirl-ism that these two convey is really something special. I’ll take you through some of the amazing arguments on display [...]
Why can’t people care about things that matter, or even take a direct action for those causes that they supposedly stand for? We have Facebook petitions and groups as a main line in political activities, and it really is tragic. Yes, collecting 1 MILLION PEOPLE AGAINST ROBERT MUGABE (case left as its group’s owners intended [...]
The welfare state is there, invariably, to provide welfare for the citizens of said state; be they ‘productive’ or not. However, have a debate about the appropriation (or indeed ‘misappropriation’) of state money to those not in work in order that they should survive, you will always get the same results: ‘if I work and [...]
