are we going to war with iran?

…and not a mention of oil in the entire article.

in july i went to a very, very fine dance music festival - sunshine, nice people, nice trees, awesome sound systems and very fine music. highlights included aphex twin, squarepusher, ritchie hawtin and dreadzone. plus lots more who’s names i can”t really remember for some reason.

there are some photos on flickr i will be going again next year… before i’m really too old

the gradual erosion of civil liberties in the uk has been making me very angry for some time. i was going to write a bit about this - but as usual george monbiot has done it much better than i could.

in addition, the letter that the police gave to critical mass participants in london recently is terrifying and hilarious at the same time. i sense a few extra big rides are in the offing. good luck everyone and keep riding.

also, if you don’t subscribe to schnews, you really should.

there are some photos in the new pictureblog.

apologies for the dire over-saturation on some of the water - we got carried away trying to make west cork look like the costa del sol…. there will be semi-regular updates to the picture pages - including, in the next few days, the house plans.