The UK government is making a fresh bid to overturn a US ban on Haggis from 1971. That is Haggis containing sheep's heart, liver and lu...

To many Isaac Newton is most famous for having an apple fall on his head but ask someone to explain any of his 3 laws of motion and they wil...

It seems you can't turn on a TV this year without hearing of an earthquake rattling somewhere so if you think there have been more earth...

Everyone must have seen the classic 70s film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' which depicted an imagined first contact with an a...

As all of the Presidents scriptwriters have gone home to shoot bullets into the air to celebrate the 4th July, i have written a speech for O...

Of all the countries recognised by the United Nations, some are decent peace loving nations who contribute to the common good of humanity, a...

The Chicago Tribune reported that an estimated 20,000 people attended a downtown viewing party of the Portugal v USA game and the game with ...

As inevitably happens at least once each summer, we were caught without suncream and i am now the not so proud owner of a pair of arms and s...

Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, has asked the football loving Pope to stay neutral during the World Cup and not pray for Argentina. Po...

As the World Cup on British television runs from approx 5pm to 1am each evening, the blog has taken a bit of a back seat recently but it has...