The video site for the TED talks gives you everything you want from a brainy site: famous and interesting speakers from many walks of life, explaining complex topics understandably, with passion and humour, filmed and presented to a high quality, in reasonable length (10-20 minutes). There’s probably whole days worth of good content here.
Our now ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has a lucrative career ahead of him in public speaking. Yet popular culture in the UK sees him as a liar and warmonger. Is this just the negativity that all politicians accumulate, especially when they have been in power a long time? Or are the allegations serious and concrete?
That’s why I’ve decided to re-blog A Case to Answer, which is pretty much the definitive examination of how Blair misled Parliament and the nation on matters of terrorism. Prepared by two academics, it relies on many external sources and lets the facts speak for themselves. This online version that I’ve created (with permission) has active links to sources and breaks the document into digestible chunks. This is Blair’s real legacy.
I’m pretty much squirtin’ in my jeans at the prospect of The Fall headlining the Ashton Court Festival. An incredibly innovative, hard-hitting and uncannily literate band is a real contrast to the headliners of recent years. Here to celebrate (and with apologies for sound quality) is “Free Range” from the early 90s album Code: Selfish. “In the year 2001, a life code: It pays to talk to no one. NO ONE!”
