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Politics
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9th July 2011The Future of RAF LeucharsUPDATE: RAF Leuchars has lost its battle for survival. I'm deeply disappointed and saddened by this news. I've lived close to the RAF station at Leuchars during the 9 months that I've been at university. Leuchars is about 6 miles from St Andrews by road, but it's much closer as the crow flies - according to Wikipedia, "Leuchars [is] about 3.3 miles North West of St Andrews town centre". The eastern end of the runway, where landings and take-offs mostly happen, is barely a kilometre away from my favourite place in St Andrews, the far end of West Sands ((You'll often find ...
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3rd May 2011AppallingAppalling indeed, Ed. What an awful video ((Filmed outside Nottingham Station.)): The world is a safer place as a result of the death of Osama Bin Laden, because he is no longer there to command or encourage terrorism. And my thoughts today are with the victims of 9/11, those terrible... attacks that took place... particularly the British victims. And I think for them nothing can take away from the pain of what happened, but justice has been done. Of course we should always remain vigilant though against the threat of terrorism. How much of an achievement was it by the Americans? Well, I ...
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1st May 2010WiBu TimeWiBu left a comment: How did you vote if you do not mind me asking? You definitely seem like an SNP guy to the core, it flows through your veins (but I guess you voted Liberal). Thanks WiBu, that's an excellent question. I'll answer it here so all my loyal readers can get to know me a bit better. One thing: I can't tell if you're being serious in the second sentence ((Is it another Cher lyric?)). Do you actually think I seem like an SNP guy? And why do you think I voted for the Liberal Democrats? (I suppose my Twitter stream ...
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12th March 2010GOP GobblersFrom Balloon Juice: I don’t care if you have to “ram it down their throats,” as the Republicans are fond of saying. Although none of the stuff going on at the moment is going to affect me, I still think that the Republicans are fucking scum. That anything can be accomplished against such dishonest people is amazing.
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10th March 2010ChinaRail™I have no analysis to add, but I love trains and I'd love to be able to use such a railway: So the news that China is planning a series of transcontinental high-speed rail lines designed to connect London to Beijing in just two days that broke yesterday in the South China Morning Post should be taken at face value. The proposal, which is mapped out above according to preliminary information about proposed alignments, would likely be the largest infrastructure project — ever. Taking the growing Chinese rail network as the starting point, new 200 ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
