by sumac | Dec 22, 2016 | Celebrity Apologies
Highly-paid actor Jennifer Lawrence, currently the highest-paid actress in the world, notice not highest-paid actor, since male actors get paid more than female ones for some odd reason, was on the “Graham Norton Show” (BBC), and talked about filming Catching Fire,...
by sumac | Jul 13, 2016 | Political Apologies
A foolish candidate for Prime Minister, Andrea Leadsom thought it would help her campaign to talk to the Times (of London). No well-rehearsed platitudes for Leadsom! When interviewer Rachel Sylvester asked what the differences were between herself and leading...
by sumac | Aug 16, 2015 | Institutional Apologies
In Maajid Nawaz’s book Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism, he tells of an unpleasant experience with the Essex police when he was 15. (Nawaz was born in Essex. His parents were born in Pakistan.) Someone had spotted his 16-year-old brother...
by sumac | Jun 11, 2015 | Scientific apologies
Tim Hunt is a biochemist, co-winner of a Nobel Prize in the Physiology or Medicine category (along with Leland Hartwell and Paul Nurse). The prize was for work elucidating how proteins like cyclins control cell division. Sounds like he can be a smart person when he...
by sumac | Apr 28, 2014 | Media Apologies
Panorama is the world’s oldest documentary news program, running on the BBC since 1953. To do a piece on North Korea, Panorama investigator John Sweeney wanted to get into the country. Sweeney’s persistent. Despite abundant harassment, he did two shows...
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