This is a cross post from my main website PoC. I think that it is worth posting twice because it’s an interesting case of negligence really. An elderly woman is on a mobility scooter on the road and tethered to that mobility scooter is her …
Fresh-faced William MacAskill occupies page 3 of The Times newspaper today, Saturday, October 8, 2022. And I’m pleased. He is an associate Prof at Oxford and the founder of the effective altruism (EA) movement. He became the youngest associate Prof of philosophy in the world …
I know I am discussing an entirely different culture to the one that I am familiar with, which is probably why this video is disgusting to me. Do you agree with me? This sweet-looking, petit, young woman in a schoolgirl’s skirt with a schoolgirl voice …
A feature of the music festival called Latitude which takes place at the campsite in Henham Park, Southwold, UK, are the pink sheep. They are props to decorate the festival and designed to provide some publicity for it. It’s effective. And it is a tradition. …
A Hundred Years is a well-known artwork by Damien Hirst which, as it happens, was loved by Francis Bacon, another very well-known artist. It consists of two connecting glass chambers. In the first chamber is a box in which maggots hatch into flies. The flies …
This is a video of a protest group called Animal Rebellion disrupting a military procession of bearskin-wearing ceremonial troops in the UK marching down The Mall which runs from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square. It is where all the big processions occur in London and …
On my understanding of this complicated aspect of American law, animal sacrifice is legal in the United States provided it does not contravene animal welfare laws concerning the humane killing of animals which is an inherently tricky and contentious subject of discussion. It seems that …
Like many others, I’ve just watched that match between Nick Kyrgios and Stephan Tsitsipas (number 4 seed) at Wimbledon (2022) which Kyrgios won with an amazing drop shot. Kyrgios was incredibly badly behaved in between playing sublime tennis. He plays shots that nobody else can …
I’ll do the animal testing bit first which I find contradictory to their £100,000 donation to Cats Protection which will provide a million meals for unwanted cats. Purina’s website tells me that they provide grants and sponsorships in many areas of animal welfare. With respect …
