About Me
If you found me searching for the lyrics to the children's song, you can find them here.
I'm a researcher in Nanobiotechnology currently based in Tokyo and this blog is all about my experiences as an expat living in Japan and about my journey from researcher to designer, or professor, or something anyway. On the way it has grown into something a bit bigger and you will find plenty of posts tackling wider topics.
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Category Archives: Politics
Andy Coulson: too wicked or too stupid?
I didn’t say it first – that honour goes to George Eaton of The New Statesman – but it would seem to be a good argument. If Andy Coulson knew that his hacks were breaking in to mobile phones then … Continue reading
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Professional politicians
I cannot stand professional politicians. By that, I mean people who have got a degree in politics and then gone straight into an internship with an MP (perhaps via a spell working in the NUS[1]) and worked themselves up to … Continue reading
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Roll of honor
I’m fairly realistic about humans and the things they do, on the whole. I don’t expect much from society and I am seldom disappointed. I try and keep abreast of the latest developments in human selfishness and depravity as, in … Continue reading
Time to stop the “debate”?
I am tired of reading the same rubbish spouted by climate denialists wherever a news agency publishes a story on climate change and then leaves it open for comment. The pattern is always the same: some idiot unthinkingly repeats a … Continue reading
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Penta-goons threaten Wikileaks
I have blogged extensively about Twitter and why I think it is a good thing but, concisely, I consider the vast majority of tweets to be crud but every now and again it is the first place to break a … Continue reading
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Three cups, one oil spill and a lot of balls
Today, agencies are reporting the wonderful news that 75% of the 4.9 million barrels of spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has miraculously just disappeared (mostly by evaporation and dispersal). Phew, that is good news isn’t it? There’s no … Continue reading
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Murderer campaigns for release on Facebook!
“Despicable!” I hear you cry. Or not, if you are my regular reader, as you will already be aware of my involvement with the ongoing campaign to free Prisoner Ben. If you don’t already know about it, then I suggest … Continue reading
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David Cameron fails to grasp the meaning of compassion
Our esteemed Prime Minister has said: It is absolutely clear that Raoul Moat was a callous murderer, full stop, end of story. I cannot understand any wave, however small, of public sympathy for this man. There should be sympathy for … Continue reading
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I am unimpressed by David Willetts.
David Willetts is our new science minister. Apparently he thinks the best way to drive the scientific innovation that will be a leading cause of the economic recovery, when it comes, is to voluntarily step down from being world leaders in blue-sky … Continue reading
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My continuing correspondence with my MP
I have to give Bernard Jenkin credit for one thing: he takes his correspondence seriously. Not 12 hours after I sent my letter, I received the following reply: Thank you for your recent email, about the forthcoming referendum on the … Continue reading
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