Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Planet Earth is flat, and there’s nothing I can’t splat

BBC: 'Mad' Mike Hughes dies after crash-landing homemade rocketA US daredevil pilot has been killed during an attempted launch of a homemade rocket in the Californian desert.  "Mad" Mike Hughes, 64, crash-landed his steam-powered rocket shortly after take-off near Barstow on Saturday. Hughes was well-known for his belief that the Earth was flat. He hoped… Continue reading Planet Earth is flat, and there’s nothing I can’t splat

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Times: Greece demands Elgin Marbles for EU trade deal I don’t see what all the fuss is about… The UK voted for Brexit: it’s already lost its marbles.

She Stopes to Conquer

Joan Smith, writing in the February 2020 edition of the Literary Review: It’s a surprise to discover that [Marie] Stopes was an enthusiastic playwright and even had a play, bizarrely entitled Our Ostriches, performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1923. […] Another Stopes script drew a sharp rejoinder from George Bernard Shaw: ‘Short of… Continue reading She Stopes to Conquer