A while back I read a great Ward Nerd piece at the Exile, which is a hotbed of rather full on opinion and comment, but one that hits the mark more often than you might suspect.  The original article was about how the Chinese had come up with a...

This assessment comes from George Monbiot writing in the Guardian.  He is talking about the onset of Peak Oil which they aslo wrote about a week ago, as the IEA seemed to be forced to overstate the reserves, and hence overstate our degree of comfort,...

For those of you who are concerned about the state of the world, one of the main issues is the potential or otherwise that the world will run out of Oil, a phenomenon called Peak Oil.  Only, guess what, in order to avoid frightening the bejeesus out...

I always joke that if I ever write a sitcom, it will be called "Geneva, an everyday tale of expatriate folk."  Only problem is, even if I just wrote the simple unalloyed truth of our daily lives no-one would believe it, because it is too bizarre. As...

Dunno. Here at Newlands mansions its been... real.  Bit too fucking real. One of our neighbours has terminal cancer. One of our good friends is looking, possibly, at a divorce. Another good friend has a daughter with severe depression... Another...