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It’s an unusual position to be in, but tomorrow I will be protesting with the Scottish Government against the replacement of the UK’s nuclear arsenal—Trident—our very own WMD.

I don’t support every policy of the SNP, but I admire Alex Salmond for standing up and voicing the opinion of the Scottish People—that we do not want [...]

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The news of this morning was that Saddam Hussein has been executed for crimes against humanity. While I am in no way sad to hear this news, instead I feel for the many people who were affected by his brutal rule that have not had full justice. He was tried for just one crime…

On November [...]

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A book describing a multitude of seemingly random interconnected ideas, and how these relate to the society we live in. Although Philip Ball uses a lot of mathematical and statistical analyses, it is not a book about maths—rather it is a book about how individuals interact with each other to form a coherent society [...]

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A story at boingbong caught my attention recently. The USA’s Department of Homeland Security are testing using radio-tags to track foreign visitors. Full story at The Kingston Whig-Standard.

This is very scary. It may be a “trial”, but a fuller implementation of this could lead to the Dept. of Homeland Security tracking all legal visitors to [...]

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I was shocked to read on the BBC news website, that an average of three kilos of litter per person were dropped at the Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park [source]. That, to me at least, re-inforces my suspicions that most people at the concerts were not there to “Make Poverty History”, they were [...]

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