Like all good egotists I often have a look around the web to see if anyone is talking about me. Every time I google search ‘Goonanism’, it asks me if I mean ‘Onanism’.
In the past I have simply ignored it, until I got a comment saying that they thought that my blog was actually [...]

3RRR reported this morning that Takeru Kobayashi has maintained his world No1 Ranking in the International Federation of Competitive Eating after winning the July Fourth International Hot dog Eating Contest ahead of arch rival and world number two Sonya Thomas.
He clinched his 5th straight win downing 49 hotdogs in 12 mins, falling just short of [...]

Over at post no bills there is a fantastic, first hand description of the G8 protests in Edinburgh.
If, as pundits like to inform us, we are indeed living in a Western world mired in apathy and fuelled by inescapable greed someone should be so kind as to inform the trainloads of people that travelled from [...]

An interesting debate broke out in the comments of a previous post about individual responsibility.
It seems every time Monbiot puts out an article I act as an echo chamber for him. I’d hate to break with tradition here. So in his latest column he makes the following points:
In the absence of government action, [...]