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We're All Doomed - But Not Yet

Posted on 2:14pm Saturday 15th November 2008

Without wishing to sound a gloomy note in this era of credit crunch and climate change, have you noticed that we appear to be doomed? We’re not really taking this climate change thing at all seriously, are we? A recent experience in Windermere made me realise that sustainability, local and sourcing are just empty words in a dictionary.

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Cartoonists of the World Unite!

Posted on 6:11pm Sunday 9th November 2008

Last week’s Westmorland Gazette cartoon was produced remotely. By that I don’t mean I have a robot slave in editorial which does my bidding - although a few colleagues have cruelly suggested that the coffee vending machine can draw better than me. No, on this occasion I was in London and submitted the cartoon by email.

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Presidential Ground Zero

Posted on 7:20pm Monday 3rd November 2008

Politics has never been more exciting. Not British politics, of course, which remains the dreary preserve of the public school debating classes. If you want thrills, entertainment and downright wacky, you have to look to America.

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Hunting Down the End of the World

Posted on 12:30pm Tuesday 9th September 2008

As I type this, we are about 24 hours away from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland.

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Catch That Pigeon

Posted on 12:09pm Thursday 4th September 2008

Technology can be a wonderful thing. It allows you to communicate across vast distances, speak to friends all over the globe, watch strangers crossing the street in Times Square, download the latest songs and movies ... and all through a tiddly piece of wire plugged into a hole above the skirting board.

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Life in the Back Row

Posted on 9:10pm Thursday 24th July 2008

The last few years the electronic industry has been very successful in finding new things to sell us.

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