Admittedly, this poem is bandied about alot so that you might become a bit desensitised to the beautiful writing. Wordsworth was a man in love with Nature and perfect Spring days like today are perfectly captured by such writing.
 I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a [...]

This is an excerpt from an add for the Atomic Weapons Establishment
AWE promotes diversity in employment. We welcome applications from women and men, regardless of disability, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, or age. Applications from women and ethnic minorities are particularly encouraged.
So  “AWE promotes diversity in employment” thats great. Even better “We welcome applications [...]

Richard Waghourne is back blogging always good to get more diverse voices out there. For a while now decent voices of the right have been lacking while decent voices on the left all about the place (Michael Taft I ran out of words to underline so you get your own brackets). So with Richard back [...]

I’ve seen the first episode of this and remain yet to be convinced. The show has done pretty well Stateside, has been given a second series and has the always reliable Peter Krause on narrator/leading man duties and Donald Sutherland in the standard ’seasoned Hollywood actor turns to TV’ manouevere so popular of late. The [...]

Anthony Minghella, the British director of acclaimed movies such as ‘The English Patient’, ‘Cold Mountain’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ passed away earlier today. He died of a haemorrhage in Charing Cross Hospital, London, following an operation last week to remove cancer of the tonsils and neck. Minghella’s career began in writing duties on ‘Grange Hill’ [...]

Being in the UK it can be easy to miss some of the stories back home. One such story is that of Cathal Ó Searcaigh now I do know what it is about but I think I missed the overall reaction and emotions invoked by this. For my non-Irish readers basically Cathal Ó Searcaigh is [...]

The science behind being a red head as well as the prejudices and nigh on racism towards read heads is up for discussion in ‘Rua’, the TG4 documentary examining the world of gingers, Wednesday at 9.30.
Looks interesting. And I have to ask how is there always an academic available to discuss however random a topic you may [...]

This one is for the ladies

Cheers all time classic

I’ve walked the halls of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York and though never meeting Governor Spitzer, there was never a shortage of suggestion, allegation and rumour about many of the elected representatives. Behaviour of such questionable standards lead to a ban on interns attending events where alcohol was served and a strict [...]

By far the more interesting element to this story is that the man to replace Spitzer, his Deputy David Paterson, will be the first Black Governor of New York State as well as being visually impaired. Read more here.