News in Brief
By David Yorkshire: Events in the Middle East have taken a turn for the worse recently with the news that two of the letters have been stolen from the terrorist group ISIS. Expert linguist Glibert Smugden called it “a disaster for convenient acronyms.” He added, “The loss of its coincidental nomenclature as having formerly been aligned with that of an Egyptian déesse is a blow for news reporters, governments and feminists everywhere.” British premier Cameron…
Ebola: Epidemic, Pandemic, Apocalypse?
By Max Musson: In a previous article I discussed the way I which fictional accounts of a ‘zombie apocalypse’ compare with the approach of our government towards the mounting catalogue of hostility shown by certain immigrant groups towards the indigenous people of Britain. In that article I identified the classic feature of a typical ‘zombie apocalypse’ movie: “The response of the authorities to the zombie threat is invariably slower than its rate of growth, giving the…