Posts tagged doomed

Welcome to the age of the clown fascists.

Tough and competent.

What sort of people will vote for Trump in 2020, if he lasts that long?

All serious historians agree that the Apollo programme of the 1960s and early 1970s was the highpoint of western civilisation.

Sometime in the middle of 2019, the UK will have a new prime minister. He¹ will have considerable power to control whether, when and how the UK leaves the EU.

Clarke’s third law is that

any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

It does not apply to organisations who want to intercept communications: if it’s claimed that they can do something which requires magic, then in fact they can’t do that.

We’ve been fooling ourselves for thirty years. We believed that the awful toxins that defined society in our youths were, while not yet dead or even nearly dead, clearly dying.

On midsummer’s eve 2016 old people in the UK demonstrated that, by a significant majority, they are xenophobic leeches who are happy to suck the life out of their children and grandchildren, and have now found a way of continuing to do so even after they are dead.