The Wonders of Little Life: Marxist Microbes and Teleporting Alien Bugs to Earth

Microorganisms such as Bacteria usually get a bad press, often described as 'mindless machines consuming all in their path for selfish gain'. This is of course, in comparison to the most evolved and superior species on the planet (thats us, naturally) with our technologically and socially advanced societies, working together wonderfully for mutual benefit.

Yet recent research might throw some doubt on this appealing fairytale, which has looked at the behaviour of a bacteria called Paenibacillus vortex, having one of the most sophisticated bacterial communities found in nature.

A Giant vampire squid ate my Ethical bank! What do I do?

During the height of the global financial crisis in 2009, writing in Rolling Stone magazine Matt Taibbi famously described investment bank Goldman Sachs as:

“...a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money...”

Tragically, several of these huge vampire squids seem to have recently consumed the Co-operative bank. But how did it come to this ? And is all hope lost ?

Iran & Israel: Ancient and Inevitable foes ? Maybe not !

If any of our mainstream news organisations (such as BBC News) are to be believed - there is an ongoing threat of war between these two significant middle eastern countries consistently portrayed as 'ancient and implacable foes'.

This is usually explained as being due to Iran's ruling elite being a gang of 'mad mullahs' insane islamic anti-semitic extremists hell bent on the destruction of Israel, with a proven historical record of hostility to the state of Israel.