Following the success of our first alternative Jack the Ripper tour, The Forgotten Women of Tower Hamlets, we're running the tour again on Tuesday, 11 June 2013. This historical walking tour remembers and celebrates the lives of the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper - Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly.
As Commander Chris Hadfield prepares to sign off from the International Space Station, we round up the Canadian astronaut's best images of Earth tweeted from space.
Cmdr Hadfield has handed over control of the research station to Russia's Pavel Vinogradov, marking the occasion by posting his own version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, in what could be the first music video shot in space.
A woman who took her own life left a suicide note blaming the government's new 'bedroom tax' for her death, it has been revealed.
Stephanie Bottrill was found dead on Junction 4 of the M6 motorway at the beginning of the month aged 53 and explicitly blamed the government for her actions.
'I don't anyone for me death expect the government,' she wrote.
I’m filling in G’s “limited Capability for Work” questionnaire. This is for the transfer from Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
I’m swearing.... a lot!
The air around me has been blue with expletives for days now and I’m raging in a way I’ve not raged for a long time! I need to keep stopping to calm down, walk away, put it back on the shelf and leave it a while before I carry on.
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UPDATE - here's an open letter I've written to Mark Zuckerberg about this:
Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg – You Can’t Have Power Without Responsibility
Just what is it about political satire that seems to get up the nose of those in positions of power?
Yesterday Facebook suddenly decided to flag this blog as spam - effectively censoring it by scaring away anyone who might want to link to it or share it on Facebook.
This is the new video of dancing babies by Evian
Dancing with my baby-me. evian Live young.
Music: Here comes the Hotstepper – Evian remix by Yuksek
DISCLAIMER – I do NOT own the video/music copyright
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE April 24: Boston Bombing: Who Says it Had to be Two Men? Who Says they Had to be Young?
UPDATE April 23rd: Boston Bombing: Newly “Enhanced” Photos of the “Shootout” bring the influence peddlers out on Reddit…
It`s a sad world we live in when blogs like this are needed. Conspiracy theorists should do us all a favour and stfu. You dont just upset the injured, their families & friends. You also upset those of us with a normal and undisturbed mindset.
The whole idea of 'free speech' has had a few challenges this last week or so. The Paris Brown saga (about which I've written here), the decision by the BBC not to play 'Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead' though it reached number two in the charts, the various attempts to block protests at Margaret Thatcher's funeral, the late amendments to the Defamation Act to remove the proposed controls over companies' abilities to sue for libel, and the arrival in court of the Sally Bercow/Lord McAlpine twitter defamation trial about which…
David Tennant has spoken about his return to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary, saying there is nothing quite like working on the show.
The actor is among a host of former cast members returning to the sci-fi drama when it airs a special anniversary edition later this year.
Speaking to the Radio Times, he discussed what it felt like to be back in the Doctor's suit.
Imagine going to work every day and at the start of your day, with your first cup of coffee, you sit down to glance at beheadings, children in the process of being raped, human bodies in various stages of decomposition, the living and dead results of domestic violence, hanging bodies of 10 year old boys accused of being gay, real-life snuff films and bloody dog fighting rings and their subsequent results.
