Oz kind of puts the UK's weather problems into perspective...
So whilst Victoria state in Australia is suffering from the worst natural disaster to affect Australia in living memory, the UK has been hit by record snowfalls – something that seems to happen every 18 years or so, on average.
In the UK the news has been ‘what if we run out of gritting salt?’, ‘transport chaos’, and at the very worst, some people had to sleep in slightly uncomfortable conditi…
A Quick Thought: China's Space Program
I personally just loved the mindless robotic stupidity of Chinese control of it’s state media networks this week, publishing ‘in-flight’ conversations between the astronauts on their recent spacewalk mission before they had even left the ground. Surely somebody thought that it might be noticed? Clearly not, or if they did they were arrested.
Such is China’s control on it’s media networks…
My new News Comment Blog Column Thing...
I’ve taken a sudden freak decision to start making a comment article every few days commenting on recent news stories- I will try to write as soon as I hear of it. It should hopefully be similar to my piece on Obama’s lipstick on a pig comment.
For a start, it’s good practice for me to get writing- I am aiming to become a journalist!
Also, I just like getting my opinion heard, I guess. I ho…