If you’re somehow not yet sick of votes… the I Love Comics poll is now underway on that board.[…]

Grumpy Old Men
It’s the theocrats’ world now, so we’d better get used to it. Casting around for something historical to write about, I thought I’d begin at ‘the beginning’ – with the enormous claimed ages of […]

Dem Bones Dem Bones
Channel 4 to show footage of decomposing body – should be gruesomely intriguing.[…]

What Just Happened
As with any election, the noble art of market research has taken a knocking. The nationwide US polls were wrong and the exit polls were even more wrong (sadly not wrong in the ways most – all? – of this site’s rea[…]

“The past…now let me tell you about the past…”
Actually, the Month Of The Past would have been a better name for it. We wanted to do a history month on Blog Seven, but felt its scope needed to be a bit wider – now-gone p[…]

Omens and portents…
Redskins loss equals Kerry win etc etc – one of the (few) enviable things about US politics is their forest of signs and portents that ‘predict’ elections, many of which are sporting. Does Britain have any […]

In October 2004 Blog Seven was a blog about fear.[…]

A Final Fright
“In the shadow of the trees on the far side of the clearing something was moving. It was gliding very slowly Northward. At a first glance you might have mistaken it for smoke, for it was grey and you could see things through it. […]

THE ULTIMATE FUTURE SHOCK – by Al Ewing, scanned and uploaded by me. Enjoy![…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
4. Castration
Oh, bollocks.
It is probably fairly clear at this point that the fear list jury was made up mostly of men. Freud would have been proud of this entry, which perhaps deserves to be taken psychological[…]