Today's latest big idea to get pupils to swear allegiance to the country every morning US style is yet another example of political gimmickry that I'm starting to increasingly associate with this government. It works in the US because of the strong association people have with their shared (relatively new …

Due to the government's failure to properly fund science (for the frankly piddling £80m shortfall) several of our high profile experiments are under threat. Considering the amount spent bailing out Northern Rock or daily on the various wars they have started you would of thought they could find the …

It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture is still causing ructions in the news. Sadly it has lead to a great deal of hostile comment, most of which from people who have never read the text of lecture but see it as a chance to put the boot in …

The breaking news today is perhaps one of the greatest arguments against allowing a government to maintain ubiquitous cross-departmental database of it's citizens. The guilty party today was HM Revenue and Customs who store quite a lot about you. The politicians have been pretty vauge about exactly what fields have …

Via Bruce Schneier's site. Apparently wearing a flashing LED on your t-shirt is a good reason to use deadly force. Because we all know that real bombs are made with circuit board and flashing LED's. You always cut the red wire right?

Just don't read some of the commentary …