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"suckers..."

In my first year after Leeds I worked as in-house music journalist and community editor for these people, which was fun mostly because I got to work from home, mostly in various stages of undress, mostly with toast. It was dur… Continue

In his book the God Delusion, Richard Dawkins lists, in a chapter discussing the arguments most often deployed against the theory of evolution, the "argument from lack of imagination." Proponents of this argument cannot imagine how the ear, or the eye, could possibly have come about via evolutionary development (what's the use of a semi-developed eye?), so they rally behind theories of intelligent design.

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What a cool car!

So, it costs us, the license fee payer, the grand sum of 50p a year to fund the interactive wing of the BBC. I think that not only represents good value for money but a great achievement by Peter Clifton, the former head of department.

£12 million, BBCi's annual budget, is the same amount of money that ITV spent on Celebrity Love Island, which involved the offspring of famous people shouting a lot and plea… Continue