Peak Oil: Why So Sad?

Amidst growing tabloid indignation about public sector pension strikes, Athenian riots, Eurozone jitters, and probably something terribly important regarding X-Factor auditions, it is quite understandable that IYTT’s ever-burgeoning ranks of followers (4 the last time I checked) may have overlooked the recent revelations surrounding the previous Labour government’s offhanded dismissal of reports which suggested that [...]

The wise will start planning for a post-oil future now

…or at the very least a future where high prices place the crucial resource/products created  using oil out of reach of many ordinary consumers. Putting to one side for a moment of the contributions of oil to climate change, ‘Peak Oil’ offers a clue as to why we all need to be concerned about reliance [...]

The Truth About The Economy

Robert Reich connects the dots on the economy, in less than 2 minutes and 15 seconds. Who knew he could draw!?!

The Circle of Life, and the Conjoined Circles of Immortality

“…Logic (and therefore probability as a branch of logic) is not concerned with what men do believe, but what they ought to believe, if they are to believe correctly.” – John Venn Back when human beings were human beings, the fear of death and the acknowledgement of one’s own mortality were amongst the main driving [...]

Why the long face? No, it’s not because you’re a horse. It’s because you’re a twat.

A new hobby of mine is going to the local petting zoo and shouting obscenities at the animals which reside there. Most people that I tell this secret to assume that I’m a massive dickhead; some call me a mentally deranged twat, and one even referred to me as a “completely mental fucking cunt”. But, [...]

McLeish Out, al-Zawahiri In

And so, with the end of the football season, the newspapers have once again descended into transfer-window madness. Rather than jetting off to a Caribbean island like the footballers they report upon, the unlucky sporting journalists must be chained to their desks over the summer, and expected to maintain a similar output as the height [...]

Domestic Abuse Doesn’t Get The Attention It Should

Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families, and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence — yet the reality is that too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned. — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, [...]

My Favourite Joke? Why, Nick Griffin and the BNP Of Course

If there’s one thing I enjoy more than following the fratricidal intrigue of the looney-left, it’s whiling away the hours checking out what Nick Griffin and his bunch of crazy British National Party goons are up to. As it stands, the ridiculous-cum-sinister merry go round that is the far right is rapidly gaining dizzying levels of speed [...]

Funny Black and White Photo Involving Old People of the Month (June)

April seemed, as it often does, to merge into May. As such, IYTT would like to congratulate Sam Morris for winning April’s caption competition with “Mutually Assured Destruction – Day 9,432″. A copy of ‘500 Days of Summer‘ is in the post. This month’s prize for the best caption is a copy of Frederick Taylor’s [...]

It’s Back to the Future, Stupid!

Certain triggers – be they sounds, smells, tastes, or tactile feelings – can create within a person an overwhelming urge to be somewhere, or some-when else. This morning, for instance, as I upended my jeans in search of some spare change, gravity sent a slow trickle of sand bouncing onto my bedroom floor. At that [...]