You'd think it was simple, wouldn't you? Gay Iranian woman comes to England and claims asylum (asylum means 'a place of safety'. It seems many people have forgotten this). Homosexuality is illegal in Iran; her partner was arrested. tortured, and sentenced to death by stoning, her father was arrested and tortured to reveal her wherabouts. It isn't like the Iranian authorities don't know about her. Do we take her in? Welcome her and comfort her with open arms?

The following letter of complaint to Ofcom was written by our friend Josie Wexler and is published here with her kind permission. It raises a plethora of objections to Channel 4's 8th March 2007 screening of The Great Global Warming Swindle by documentary-maker Martin Durkin.

I found it depressing watching. I hope Ofcom takes action against Channel 4 over this, for the reasons Josie articulates so well. However, I suspect the screening has already done its damage: it is now being cited triumphantly on the blogs of those in climate-change denial.

Just uploaded this first draft of our first proper "flet" template - the first bit of beyond-the-norm design I've done for some months now - and am quietly pleased with myself.

I've used this as an excuse to get my head around web typography at last. I've always liked the beautifully typeset output I get from LaTeX and now understand how to at least echo this in a web page.

Hallo!

We've sat on this domain name for long enough and done nowt with it, but appear to be moving at last. We, by the way, are Mark and Abi - resident in Sheffield with lives full of chaos and activity that somehow we think may make more sense to us through a website. Whether it makes any sense to you is another matter...