- The US has 5,113 nuclear warheads, it announced officially for the first time this week. What on earth do you need that many for? China has 200, the UK has 160, and even one is too many in my opinion.
- Obviously no oil spill is a good thing, but with the amount of attention the Deepwater Horizon rig has got you’d think it was a pretty significant one. In reality, it’s 10,000 tonnes pales into insignificance compared to some disasters.
- Nick Clegg’s ‘decision tree’ is an imaginative way of presenting our current political situation.
- And speaking of politics, did you hear about the Science Party in last week’s election? No? That was kind of their point.