Royal Chicken Dinners

Cambridge University researchers analysed more than 2,000 Anglo-Saxon skeletons in England .... 

Anglo-Saxon Meals Pretty Vegan

 .... all from the 5th to 11th Centuries (Saxon England before 1066), to determine their diets by analysing chemical signatures of the peoples diets preserved in the bones.

Put Out To Pasture

China, like many societies is facing an ageing workforce, and also youth unemployment issues.

China's Youth Unemployment Rate Higher Amongst Graduates

How they deal with this is a major concern to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), whose unelected rule can only be justified if the population is, by and large, content to let them retain power.

The Information Curtain

Once you go down the road of censorship, you open yourself up to the paradoxical and the ridiculous.

Censorship Isn't Just The News .....

The UK for example has the quango that deals with complaints about advertising content, known as the Advertising Standards Authority, it generally deals with misleading content in adverts across al media streams. They are not that intrusive but in my opinion do over react to the smallest number of complaints, when compared to the millions who weren't offended. Generally complaints are that a product advert is offensive or misleading, or both.

Robbed Of Retirement

The average life expectancy in most countries is just that, the average age of those who have died in the preceding decade.

Life Expectancy Rates Vary Greatly Across The Globe

..... At least that's usually the case in the West and rich countries.

Last Of The BIG Men

I have always been surprised that Robert Mugabe has managed to cling onto power in Zimbabwe for so long (The 92 year old has governed the country since independence in 1980). But perhaps 'cling on' is the wrong simile ... he has actually retained an iron grip on the country for decades. One of my earliest posts on this blog, was on his then position, and I was very wrong in assuming that he would have fallen long ago.

Bread And Circuses have Worked For Centuries .....

Now finally perhaps his grip may be slipping .... any tyrant has to think about 'bread and circuses' .... the two key elements to keeping the mob, err population, happy. Despite his total economic incompetence and corruption, Robert Mugabe has always found money for his key support base, the Army and Public Officials. He has always managed to make sure these two groups are paid, and therefore have a feel good factor, even while the rest of the country, particularly in rural areas, suffered great poverty.