I always think of Hawkeye Bot from the Futurama episode 'War is the H Word'. He has a switch to change between 'irreverent' and 'maudlin'. (View Post)

A brilliantly lucid analysis of this story. (View Post)

I'm not a fan of that kind of framing because it picks at a thread of moral judgement which causes the whole health and social care service to unravel. Many sports radically increase your chance… (View Post)

It would come as a surprise to Mary Whitehouse, Donald Maxwell-Fife et al that they were really lefties. (View Post)

I'm pretty liberal on migration but there are good reasons to be more concerned about Universities relying on Chinese nationals (as distinct from ethnically Chinese) than on American ones. The w… (View Post)