Dear Gordon Brown - a message, a request, a plea …
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. We hear this call to arms on a daily basis. We respond with creating something - something we feel will help our country, its people - and possibly […]
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Did you see the news last night? The British Government want to build more nuclear power stations, in order to redress power price costs, guarantee supply, prevent power shortages etc, etc. How very worthy of them…
Let’s consider this for a moment.
Is it yet another short-term fix?
Is this proposed power proposal going to resolve the long-term […]
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There are times when The Red Knob mission to open up the field of sexual health education seems like a clip from an old Paul Whitehouse Fast show – the one where the woman comes up with the bright idea to fix something whilst a group of men completely ignore her – then come up […]
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Last weekend The Independent on Sunday carried an article on the phenomenon known as Vice magazine – something we here at Red Knob HQ are very much in favour of. Why? Around 30 years ago some of us were involved in a ‘spectacular youth culture’ ( to quote Dan Laughey) known as Punk Rock. Now […]
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The Science…
Danish scientists have produced new research that childless men are less likely to develop prostate cancer than men who are fathers – however, they’ve also found that the more children a father has the less likely he is to develop prostate cancer too – full story here: Fatherhood/prostate link.
An interesting question is how does […]
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A couple of weeks ago I was perusing a catalogue of resources for primary education. Now, we’re all familiar with those huge tomes of Gratton’s and Argos and the Yellow Pages – well this was all those in SPADES! Bloody huge with more than 1500 pages I’d guess. Fabulous stuff for maths and science and […]
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Sailing too close to The Edge? (You too, huh…)
As a boy and young man, my father taught me how to sail; he instilled the importance of safety and the virtues of good seamanship. We would sail around Gabriola Island and the Gulf Islands - just off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, and depending on the […]
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