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In my day job I am the webmaster for a large global company. We have a site that I inherited that needs to be updated, and some web design agencies have found out about this and are starting to send … Continue reading →

I don’t know if you are aware, but I once undertook a massive labour of love: over 18 months of evenings and weekend I created the Heart of Empire CD-Rom with my personal hero, Bryan Talbot. Bryan created the art … Continue reading →

Wow – I still cannot believe it! The fanpage that I run for the legendary English comic artist and author Bryan Talbot at http://www.bryan-talbot.com/ is now ten years old! I honestly do not know of any other fanpages out there … Continue reading →

The environment is the only thing on the problem horizon that has the capacity to affect every single person on the planet. Think about it: as bad as AIDS is we can implement strategies to deal with it. (and especially … Continue reading →

In the republic we are unashamedly humanist; we value human life FAR more than any animal…. What this means is that if there is some research that needs to be done to save human lives that requires some animal testing … Continue reading →

Consider these facts: The Earth is the only planet in the solar system where from the surface a satellite appears to be exactly the same size as the Sun. The planets that are closer to the Sun than us – … Continue reading →

We in the glorious Peoples Democratic Republic of Birmingham are capable of the most elementary maths and basic common sense…. which is why we decided that nuclear power was a bad idea, even when it was proposed to be used … Continue reading →

If there were not so many people around then there would be a lot less problems in the world… Think about it – there would be less competition for scarce resources – so we would not need to go to … Continue reading →

If stopping global warming is going to take 10% of your profits for the next year, or 20% of your whole turnover – then SO WHAT?! The plain fact is that you CAN live without making that much profit, but … Continue reading →

No justice system is perfect… but a system that kills people is more imperfect than any other. A system of justice that kills people is arrogant beyond belief: it tells the population that we are so overwhelmingly arrogant that we … Continue reading →