The Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a hugely expensive operation. Over £2 billion a year to maintain its offices in virtually every important city around the world and pay its expensively trained staff. It has a
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Football – Spot The Ball Competition.
Barry and Distrct FC are Division 2 Champions.
(Ed: I’m shocked Ms Raccoon……)
Towards a Constitution.
There are few more dangerous errors in political thinking than to equate democracy with liberty.
James Bovard 2006 ‘The Freeman‘
The Swiss Federation has had three Constitutions since 1848 following the military defeat of the “Sonderbund” alliance
Continue reading →National Raccoon Day…..
National Raccoon Day today, and I shall be taking the day off to rake through some very special garbage cans..in the meantime I leave you with this.
Integration and Minorities – Further Thoughts
This piece has been precipitated by Anna’s pieces on Integration and Minorities and Utopia Unplugged.
I was brought up in what was then a northern mill town in the late 60’s
Continue reading →The Right to Roam
“They must have moved Snaefell again…”
I must confess that I often find myself feeling like a stranger in a strange land, and never more so that when confronted by the curious
Continue reading →Professional Roamers!
Life in a very small and very rural French village can be surreal at times.
We are clustered round the 15th century church of St Felicien. It is a historic monument, Grade 1 listed
Continue reading →Heads they win, tails you lose
He would be so proud
There is little I can say that can convince you of the blind stupidity and wasteful cost of government as well as this little tale
Continue reading →Imaginary numbers
I was reading this excellent post by Ben Goldacre and it inspired me to reflect upon the curious nature of “prevention”. In this post, Ben says:
According to the Home Office, Sarah’s law – which
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Utopia Unplugged.
Corajoud Park, Villeneuve.
Andrew Withers post on Sunday asking where it might be possible to construct a new existence struck a particular chord with me for here in France
Continue reading →An open letter to Theresa May concerning the matter of Ian Huntley
“Dear Home Secretary,
You seem very nice, and you have an interesting taste in shoes, which is a Good Thing in the eyes of the Lord. However, I understand that you have been a bit
Continue reading →Where Is The English Free State ? or thoughts of a secessionist.
The Free State project movement in the States has always appealed, living amongst
Continue reading →The Sunday Sermon
Doctor Karen Woo’s death was reported yesterday, and will be extensively reported in the Sunday press. Another life claimed by the hopeless and sad quagmire that is Afghanistan. That Afghanistan has always been.
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Social Housing.
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading – Holiday Edition.
JuliaM was right – the Donkey is a ringer…….
Not a Sheep on child free travel.
Subrosa on the failings of child protection.
Raedwald on the human cost of bastardy.
Longrider on Speed Cameras.
Continue reading →Silly Season round up
Here in the Abbey it is very quiet. Almost all the other monks gone off on holidays to somewhere called Aya Napa, but at least I have been able to hustle pool in the
Continue reading →Integration and Minorities.
The perceived wisdom of the man in the Snug is that immigrant populations should be the ones to integrate, change their ways, learn the language, adapt to the strange food. They are but a small
Continue reading →Saving Every Ass Under The Sun.
Last month a viral video showing an Ass strapped to a parasail dangling 150’ above a southern
Continue reading →I have a box of matches or Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I remember a fresh faced young man saying this on the 18th September 2006.
The Liberal Democrats pledged a bonfire of government laws today, with a promise to bring in a “great repeal act” scrapping supposedly illiberal legislation brought
Continue reading →Some Step-Fathers Do Have ‘em.
The Step-son from Hell…..
A FRAUDSTER who stole thousands of pounds from his stepfather’s building society account only days after being spared prison was yesterday locked up for six
Continue reading →In Praise of Real Men.
PC David Rathband has been in danger of losing the media fight for column inches. That will be redressed at 7.30 tonight on the ITV1 programme ‘In the Line of Fire’.
PC Rathband had the misfortune
Continue reading →Marxism v. Capitalism.
There is a superb article by Dr Eamonn Butler on the Adam Smith blog highlighting the current pressure from the Marxist left to ‘force’ the banks to lend, which has set my brain whirring for the day.
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The Law & The State
“An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.” –Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 1807. ME 11:341
“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all
Continue reading →The Decline of Law and Order (part 2)
In a curious parallel (that is almost certainly not related in any way, shape or form) to the decline of the police caring in the slightest about what happens to people and their property, there has been an astounding increase
Continue reading →Lobby Jobbies…
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Another Small Victory.
Oh the lies! The lies!
The Decline of Law and Order (part 1)
It seems to me that things were a lot simpler when I was younger. Not younger as in being a child, but younger as in being in my twenties and thirties. Certain acts were criminal, and as long as you
Continue reading →Health Economics.
In Hereford there is a purpose built podiatric hospital. That’s a foot hospital for the benefit of those who cruise the Internet looking for any mention of paedophilia and get confused with paediatrics.
I
Continue reading →The Drippy Fawcett Society.
One of the guiding hands behind Harman’s feminista movement for equality legislation, she is the original dripping faucet on the subject of equality for women.