Ben Goldacre has written a great piece for the Guardian about ID cards and why biometrics are not to be trusted. I have mixed feelings about Ben Goldacre – I think he is too quick to dismiss as quackery things that science can’t explain, but he is truly excellent on pointing out the misuse of [...]
The weekend before last, Sarah and I went up to Glasgow with our taekwondo club to participate in a taekwondo tournament. It was amazing and a serious personal challenge. The lead up to the tournament all started a few months ago when a couple of people in our club suggested we could compete in the [...]
I recently bought a Dahon Jack folding bike, and I’m cycling to work on it pretty much every day. I’m loving it and wondering why I didn’t sort out my life to do this years ago! More on that in another post, but here let me just share some information for other people who might [...]
Here’s a report on the BBC website about a female tennis coach who sexually abused a girl in her charge. Why mention it here? Because the BBC has chosen not to headline the piece something like “lesbian child abuser”, but instead “Tennis coach jailed for sex abuse” and I am happy about that (the headline, [...]