My flag talk at Ignite Liverpool 7

Last week, I gave a talk on flags at Ignite Liverpool 7. It’s an exciting format, with each speaker given 5 minutes and 20 slides to talk about whatever they want. The slides progress automatically every fifteen seconds, so you don’t have control and it’s very easy to lose your place. I can thoroughly recommend … [Read more…]

Catch me at Ignite Liverpool!

This Thursday (September 15th 2011) I’ll be giving a 5 minute talk on flags (yes, flags) at Ignite Liverpool. The event is upstairs at Leaf on Bold Street, starting at 6pm. I’ve not been to one of these events before, but it sounds like great fun. Lots of speakers have 5 minutes and 20 slides … [Read more…]

Four Lions on Channel 4 tonight

This evening (Sunday September 4th) Four Lions, the début film from director Chris Morris, gets it first UK screening on Channel 4. The film, which tells the story of four bumbling Jihadists from Sheffield, caused controversy when it was first released in cinemas, and the Daily Mail thinks the screening will cause outrage because it’s … [Read more…]

EU funding homeopathy for cows

The #ten23 hashtag on Twitter is currently full of homeopathy skeptics currently up in arms over a Daily Mail article claiming that the EU are to spend 2 million euro on researching the use of homeopathy in livestock farming. However, rather than being another piece of Mail right-wing euro-bashing, it is in fact true. Fernando Frias kindly … [Read more…]