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Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to a Nepalese Sherpa
More Global Hot Air!
Keep your chin up – it’s not that bad….
The Brown Stuff.
Our erstwhile
Continue reading →Trading in Brown Futures……
At Party Conference in SeptemberGordon Brown his fate confronts
He must contain his throbbing … brain
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Abuse of Process.
I was so enraged by this case yesterday that my mind shut down. It literally would not countenance covering the subject and retreated instead into
Continue reading →The moment of anticipation
Cold? Warm? Deep? Shallow? Who knows…?
This is it. This is that brief lull before we truly find out where we are with our new government. In the brief
Continue reading →A very Libertarian vacance.
The idea of being coerced into volunteering has never sat easily with the French. Memories of ‘pour encourager les autres’ a little too close for
Continue reading →What Have We Learned in 2065 Years?
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
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Is Labour fit to Oppose?
Around 10 years ago, I was visiting a patient in Wood Green, North London. As we finished talking I glanced at my watch – running late for next appointment! I fled to
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Raccoon’s ‘gone on the missing list’ edition…….. Raedweld defaces the currency. Witterings sees the end of Democracy. Mrs Rigby farms Continue reading → Coalition Repeal Bill.
“And as we tear through the statute book, we’ll do something
Continue reading →The futility of security theatre
Oh, the drama!
We have already seen how pointless (and malicious) the full-body scanners in our airports are. So far, it has been clearly shown that they wouldn’t have
Continue reading →A new dawn?
Trigger Happy.
With all the excitement of finding myself surrounded by cross-dressers on Election Day, as the serious business of counting the votes in Cambridge collided with the theatre showing the eternally popular Rocky
Continue reading →The return of the divine wind
Suicide is painless
The Kamikaze (神風, common translation: “divine wind“) were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the
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My take on left libertarianism
A rogues' gallery
For the purposes of this exercise, I will use the following definition of left-libertarianism:
Left-libertarianism, as defended by contemporary theorists such
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Strident on Trident.
One of the first tasks that the civil service will have ensured that David Cameron carries out – within minutes of his return from Buckingham Palace – is re-writing the
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Court of Protection: That Straw Man’s Confidence Trick Dissected.
Straw, the
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Jack Straw, temporarily posing in what should be his home for life
And so the unravelling continues. In a paean of praise to the voting public that kept the
Continue reading →Organised Chaos.
There I was, pondering the media reports of our shambles of an election, wondering where to start investigating how it should
Continue reading →Nursing the news along.
Pass the sick bag Alice!
I note ‘the image will be changed shortly’….do they know something we don’t? Those with Photoshop ability are invited to submit their updated versions to this site as and when… Edited to Continue reading → A cash crop.
Mr G picked up a curiosity at our local vide-grenier this morning. It had a handle beautifully turning in hedgerow Holly. Mounted on top was a gourd, painted with a scene of
Continue reading →Robinson Crusoe fantasies…..
I was standing on a chair in the early hours of this morning. Not a mouse in sight. I needed the chair to reach a high shelf to rescue the one and only relic of
Continue reading →The latest occupant of the Max Wall tights.
Kitted out
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A word on the Lib Dems
The Lib Dem oil well
“Ghastly”. That is certainly one (polite) word. After Nick Clegg’s little faux pas of “forgetting”
Continue reading →McCluedo – a Righteous game for all the family.
Madeleine McCann would be seven years old today. All across Britain there are other little girls celebrating their seventh birthday – and it is a matter of supreme indifference to all except those
Continue reading →Why are we in the EU?
The latest news from the EU is that Britain has been, yet again, shafted by a stitch up between EU finance ministers who have kindly obliged us to cough up
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