“Her win was a verdict on the Government’s failing economic plan.” Oh dear. That kind of soundbite comment is easy to make on the telly or in a press release but the wonders of social media and the right to reply immediately sort of make you look stupid when what you say is, well, stupid. Out of the 30 replies to the post, these are some of the more amusing:-  28 of the last 37 years the constituency … Read entire article »

We all know the famous saying, “opinions are like arseholes*, everyone has one” and it’s completely fair play in our post modern relativistic world. A person’s opinion can be stupid, reprehensible or thoughtless but the one thing it can never be is wrong. By default an opinion must be right, as it is how that individual feels on a subject. The opinion doesn’t have to be based in actual fact or knowledge, or even serious but as Jeremy Clarkson recently found out, if people don’t like your opinion, they’ll let you know (via the BBC). Facts though shouldn’t be subject to the same level of subjectivity as opinion. Yes, science is based on observation and a lot of scientific theory can be seen as “our best understanding of the empirical data … Read entire article »