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Oxford alley cat last week. We don’t take it as seriously as the London messengers… the task this time was to decorated by “artists” at each checkpoint.
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Oxford May Day Celebrations →
I went to bed at 2am and got up at 4.30am for this.
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I was out cycling again this weekend, a 70 mile loop round Oxford, Somerton and Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds.
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I went cycling last Sunday. This is one of the mileposts installed by Sustrans to mark the National Cycle Network.
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BP is on the verge of building the infrastructure to extract oil from tar sands in Alberta, Canada. Saturday 10 April was a national day of action to try and persuade them not to invest in tar sands, which require several times the energy to extract the oil compared to conventional sources, and which damage large areas of the environment.
This is from the protest in Oxford.
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The Goat Race 2010 at Spitalfields City Farm, London, last Saturday.
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The Wolvercote viaduct just over week ago, as it was being lifted prior to being slid sideways by 16 metres.
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Court of Appeal: British Chiropractic Association v. Simon Singh →
A couple of years ago Simon Singh wrote in a Guardian comment piece:
“The British Chiropractic Association claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying, even though there is not a jot of evidence. This organization is the respectable face of the chiropractic profession and yet it happily promotes bogus treatments.”
The BCA sued for libel, and a year ago Lord Justice Eady ruled that this was a statement of fact, and as a result Simon Singh would have to prove that the BCA knowingly promoted ineffective treatments.
Simon Singh appealed, and won. A ruling today from 3 of the most senior judges in the country said that he should have the right to the defence of “fair comment”, which they suggest should more accurately be termed “honest opinion”.
Their judgment is pretty scathing of the BCA, suggesting they should’ve taken the Guardian’s offer to write a similar piece to put their side of the story. They also take a dim view of the courts being used to decide on scientific controversies.
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I took this photo last year from Moel Eilio, a mountain ridge next to Snowdon in Wales. Technically it’s several photos stitched together into a panorama.
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And another photo taken in the snow a couple of months ago. This is looking down towards the centre of Oxford from the top of South Parks just after sunset.
