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On the anniversary of man’s supposed landing on the moon, here’s why it didn’t happen. If anyone can spot the allusions to biblical criticism methods, well done! if you can’t, you’ll probably find it a bit boring. Sorry about that. There are no original copies left of the recordings from the Apollo 11 landing. How [...]

A couple of weeks ago, this story hit the Lancashire Evening Press, the Daily Express and road.cc. Some postmen are facing the sack for doing their rounds without cycle helmets – those vital pieces of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). This is an ill-researched, ill thought-out piece of totalitarianism by the Royal Mail, and one might [...]

Term’s ending, so there are a lot of ‘finals’ happening at the moment. Last week, it was my final trip to Kingsway school, and my final KS2 assembly in Meadowbank. This week contained my final High Lane club, my final Fusion and my final proper AllStars (they’re going swimming next week) and I’ve just finished [...]

…and this isn’t anything to do with his strident atheism! Philip Pullman and other authors, hearing that they may need to pay £64 to be vetted before visiting schools, are incensed and have ‘gone on strike’ (BBC. At the end of this year, the government will introduce a scheme where people who work with children [...]

Lance Armstrong has recovered from a particularly bad testicular cancer, won the world’s toughest race seven years in a row, retired, come back and is currently rivalling his team mate for the top spot. Any sensible person would say that this man’s not human, he’s a machine. No, wait, he’s more than that. No machine [...]

… but his ghost must have hovered over this case. James Barton was cycling Land’s End to John O’Groats, and had reached Gretna when his satnav took him onto a motorway. This is illegal, and he was only on the motorway for a few minutes before being stopped by a police car. So far so [...]

Everyone who’s read the Bible has a favourite verse, but what’s your least favourite? Which bits get you grinding your teeth in annoyance at the big bigot up there, or weeping with frustration at yet another long genealogy? Ship of Fools have decided to find out, andare conducting a public poll with their usual flair. [...]

Can a good person get to heaven even if they don’t believe? We were discussing this at a recent CY?, and the girls were firmly of the opinion that for God not to ‘let someone in’, if this nonbeliever had “been reasonable good like, not murdering loads of people or something” would be very unfair. [...]

It was midnight, and the cyclists glided silently out of Manchester for the cycling collective IBikeMCR’s monthly moonlight ride. Not a sound was heard, except the ticking of freewheels, the grunts of the guy on fixed and the fateful words of my new friend Tim, “Yeah, I’d really like to do an audax sometime”. Silly [...]

Over at www.velogames.com, I’ve entered as a fantasy Tour de France team manager. My team, known to the world as Team Bunbury, is made up of the following riders: Andy SCHLECK (Saxobank) has had some brilliant results in the one day classics this year. Franck SCHLECK (Saxobank) is, like his younger brother, a fantastic rider. [...]