75% of this chart resembles Pac-Man.
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Pascal’s wager was deeply flawed as it either assumed that you could choose to believe or conflated belief with action. However, it has a useful application to climate change.
The wager is probably best explained with a simple table:

Believe (1)
Don’t Believe (2)

God exists (1)
Heaven
Hell

God doesn’t [...]

BBC News 24 this evening has gone, antibathetically, from the ridiculous to the sublime. The ridiculous - deserving of ridicule - was footage of a parked car which might or might not have driven Kevin Federline, the estranged husband of Britney Spears, to a courthouse. Ms Spears might have been in the courthouse or, according [...]

A group has been set up on Facebook called (in capitals, so it must be important) ‘Vote Stop the War Coalition for Channel 4 News Award’. It reads rather like the headlines of spam emails and the content of the group is similarly inaccurate. The award in question is ‘most inspiring political personality of the [...]

The shortlist for the new installation on the Fourth Plinth have been announced. They are The Spoils of War (Memorial for an unknown civilian) by Jeremy Deller; Something for the Future by Tracey Emin; One and Other by Antony Gormley; Sky Plinth by Anish Kapoor; Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare; and Faîtes [...]

The video of last night’s mayoral debate between Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick is available here at ITVlocal.com.
xD.

I am delighted that Matt Wardman and Garbo of the Poliblogs like my idea to set MPs pay once per Parliament and for it to be increased annually in line with an index. I favour the mean average of CPI and average wage increase, but I suspect the detail would be better left to a [...]

Alice and I went to Paris shortly after New Year for a few days and had a lovely time. Although a bit cold, damp and grey, we thoroughly enjoyed it. A few photos follow below for your delectation. Clicking on a photo will bring it up full-size.
The Louvre pyramid

The pyramidal entrance to the Louvre is [...]

Tom Watson links to a fascinating article on Rolling Stone magazine’s website about the deleterious effects MP3s are having on the quality of music, both in terms of fidelity and whether it’s worth listening to at all. The article, which is worth reading in full1, essentially says that people want to make music with more [...]

The old chestnut that is MP’s pay has come around again. As I have said before, I find the Enoch Powell brand of politics somewhat distasteful, but there is at least one area where he may have been onto a good idea. Whenever a pay rise came round, he turned it down until he was [...]