David Coveney

It never even occurred to me what Tofu really meant.  Now I do!  Storm in a tea­cup, but amused me non­ethe­less:
Popped into the Cam­paign for Think­ing, for obvi­ous reas­ons.
Thanks to Alison Classe who lis­ted this on Cix.

There’s a ques­tion on a wall in Liv­er­pool — “Would you like to die old and slow, or young and tra­gic?” But the more I think about it, the more I don’t know. This guy was def­in­itely young and tragic.

Cer­rie Bur­nell — a pretty children’s TV presenter who, it seems, has man­aged to upset some par­ents by only hav­ing one arm. Er… what?!

The UK Health & Safety Exec­ut­ive is run by largely sens­ible, clear minded folk that want to help us to keep doing what we do, but ideally without los­ing fin­gers, testicles or lives.
So why do they get so much flack?  Why do we keep hear­ing tales of chil­dren not being allowed to play in snow, in […]

Auto­matic Rising Bol­lards — in my opin­ion a dan­ger­ous haz­ard that can cause ser­i­ous dam­age to prop­erty and injury to car occu­pants. Come on guys — you can think of bet­ter ways to keep traffic out.…

Inflate a prob­lem, lie about it, redefine some words, and hey presto! You have a way to make a new law that will prob­ably cause a lot of harm but will tick the boxes of cer­tain voters whilst not ali­en­at­ing others.

As part one of my cam­paign to intro­duce the concept of actu­ally think­ing to UK media, pun­dits and gov­ern­ment, I’m cov­er­ing the nasty little idea of auto­matic speed lim­iters being intro­duced to cars — so that people can, basic­ally, stop think­ing about the speed they drive at. That’ll work…

Intro­du­cing my per­sonal, one man mini-crusade — the Cam­paign for Think­ing. It’s going to be a scattered stream of con­scious­ness thing. It might be good ther­apy for me. Who knows?