Rotundus.com

If you thought the television tales about Thomas the Tank Engine were merely light-hearted fun, think again.

In fact, they portray a world blighted by a 'conservative political ideology' and a rigid class system which stifles self-expression. And they are sexist.

That, at least, is the view of a female academic who took the trouble to analyse 23 episodes of the programme inspired by the books of the Rev W V Awdry.

- Read more at Daily Mail

It's a British paper, but the "research" was done by someone at the U. of Alberta in Canada. *sigh*

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• The NHL has the highest wage inflation amongst North American pro sports leagues
• I don't like McMansions, but this seems to me to be is a bit small
• Beware tomatoes. They're carnivorous!
• A cool photo-tour of Chernobyl (I remember stumbling across an earlier version of this site some years back, but it's worth seeing again)

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. ... Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. ... "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden." ... And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen.

... The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

- Excerpted from The Telegraph