Anti-Vaxxers Biggest Challenge Yet…

I spotted this via Carla Louise (thanks for sharing this on FB, I thought it summed them up nicely!), and decided to make sure it reaches as wide an audience as possible. It just goes to show the levels to which some people will sink in order to ‘prove’ vaccination is bad.

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Brevity

What with all the darkness and pain in the world at the moment, I thought I’d lighten the mood, and now I’m sitting here, wondering how to do that! I could spout unusual facts – for example, I once got a peanut M&M stuck up my nose. At 25, this was awkward to explain. It […]

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Misandry – or Misogyny?

Prowling the web as I sometimes do, I came upon an ‘interesting’ piece written about greater life expectancy for men in Sweden. The paragraph below caught my eye: Still, well over 90% of industrial deaths are male – showing the push for “equality” is only in areas of society that provide exclusive benefit to women, […]

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Roy should drop Rooney

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36441260 I was reading this article this morning and I decided it had to be shared, because there’s a lot of win in it. It seems to me that we are moving full steam ahead into Euro 2016 without a clear idea of who is starting where, and Hodgson is desperate to play Rooney, even […]

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More thoughts on Freedom of Speech

Picture the scene. You’re walking down the street, minding your own business, possibly chatting with a friend, when along comes someone who decides (for whatever reason) to start giving you crap. They’re being plain nasty and abusive, shouting and screaming at you for whatever arbitrary reason has come to mind. Obviously you’re not minded to […]

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Free Speech and Hate Speech

There’s been some stuff in the news lately about some of the web’s biggest platforms (Microsoft, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter) agreeing to do more to tackle hate speech online. Already on Twitter there is a trending hashtag: #Istandwithhatespeech. The backlash to the Big Four’s move is two-fold. Some genuinely fear this is oppressing free speech […]

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