total bullXit

“Of course there will be an attempt to try to obfuscate the effect of this Act, but it does – the capitulation act, or the surrender act or whatever you want to call it – it does, I’m sorry, but it greatly enfeebles, it greatly enfeebles this government’s ability to negotiate.”

“But what I will say is that the best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox and indeed the best way to bring this country together would be, I think, to get Brexit done.”

“There’s a terrible kind of collaboration as it were, going on between people who think they can block Brexit in Parliament and our European friends.”

“What will synthetic biology stand for – restoring our livers and our eyes with miracle regeneration of the tissues, like some fantastic hangover cure? Or will it bring terrifying limbless chickens to our tables?”

“I can hardly condemn Ukip as a bunch of boss-eyed, foam-flecked euro hysterics, when I have been sometimes not far short of boss-eyed, foam-flecked hysteria myself.”

“We will leave the EU on 31 October, deal or no deal. The way to get a good deal is to prepare for a no deal.”

 

stupid traditions are simply stupid

Over the past weekend, several men were killed in Spain. By running bulls. Most in the streets of Pamplona. And one in a bullring. The argument behind those events is to invoke “tradition“. Which means it happened for several centuries. Starting (?) with the Minoan bull leapers. But that does not make an argument when live are at stake and animals turned into killing machines (and often injured in the process). A lot of other absurd and cruel traditions have rightly disappeared over the years…  The European Union does not yet prohibit this animal mistreatment although it prohibits EU funds to be used as support, but it should as it is high time bull running and bull fighting are prohibited everywhere in Spain (as bull fighting currently is in both Catalunya and the Canary Islands). [I realise this is not the number one problem in the World and that many more people died the same weekend of deaths that could have been avoided, it is just that it would be so simple to eliminate this one (dis)reason.]