Morris QC on royal commissions
I've known Tony Morris QC for a number of years as webmaster of a very useful legal site called Lex Scripta. More recently he attained...
Help! I think I’m turning Democrat!
I've been regularly monitoring opposition and minor party media releases over the last fortnight or so. That's the sort of boring person I am, sadly....
Old Commissioner Cole isn’t a merry old soul
Only last week I was speculating about why Terrence Cole QC hadn't sought an extension of his terms of reference to enable him to make...
Thank Jevons
[photopress:jevons1.jpg,full,alignleft] As a practiced poster, I now find myself spinning inane puns for my headlines, like any good subbie. Be that as it may, I...
Dark matter, dark energy and black hole singularities: all solved! (Maybe)
Sometime Troppo commenter Gaby sent me this amazing article from New Scientist. DARK energy and dark matter, two of the greatest mysteries confronting physicists, may...
Iraq the model – but model what?
Tim Dunlop posts on the situation in Iraq, and it doesn't make happy reading. No doubt RWDB readers will dismiss it as just another piece...
Death by a thousand volunteers
What is the collective noun for volunteers? Well I'm just starting to recover from swarms, of them, whole irritations of volunteers. There were fifteen thousand...