One of the first testing grounds for the new Libertarian Party was fighting the Norwich North By Election. We learned a huge amount. We gained precious little in the way of votes, but a huge amount by way the cynical way elections
Continue reading →Monthly Archives: January 2011
Lets Just Reintroduce The Six Acts And Have Done With It
This morning I heard the BBC intone the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords ‘ could not be laid at the door of one lone deranged gunman but as a result of a hostile right wing political discourse’.
Where is this coming from ? Yes
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading (Better late than never edition)
Syniadau on political opportunism.
Charles Russell on political leaks.
Sue
Quote of the Day.
They started a relationship shortly afterwards during a Christmas visit to a local pub.
Nadine Dorries MP explaining where and when her ‘platonic’ relationship with John Butler MP became, er,
Continue reading →The New Year Crush to Get Insured.
The combination of the ‘libertarian’ (?) Lib-Dems and the ‘rolling back the State’ (?) Conservatives are bulldozing their way to ever more impressive authoritarian heights.
If your car is uninsured it is liable to
Continue reading →Black and White | Plain Speaking.
Whoa! Haven’t we all got our knickers in a twist? So much so that I find myself in agreement with Keith Vaz – not quite sure what the long term effects on my health that will be – probably
Continue reading →The cruellest hoax of all.
Long ago, I watched a young man create an elaborate ‘cat’s cradle’. It involved perhaps a half kilometre of twine, stretched from cupboard door to cupboard door, rendering the kitchen unusable during its construction. It was breathtakingly beautiful
Continue reading →The perfect MP
A politician who jumps up at any opportunity and makes a name for himself by grandstanding and coming up with new laws and opinions every other
Continue reading →Resistance is Useless…….. Not Quite
My letter of the day following the iniquitous fine against Michael Thompson for obstructing the Police in the course of their duty by warning other motorists of a speed trap set by the local
Continue reading →A shiver passed across the world,
Treebeard, Skinbark and Leaflock have taken a leaf out of Swampy’s Little Book of Protests and are preparing to march on London town in support of our culture, nay, our civilisation, not
Continue reading →+++ Chaytor – Guilty +++
Mr Justice Saunders just sentenced the former Labour MP for Bury, David Chaytor, to eighteen months at Her Majesty’s pleasure after pleading guilty to three counts of false accounting, or stealing £18,000 from the taxpayer, under section 17
Continue reading →Second hand Brussels Sprouts
It’s not just the UK which has banned smoking in enclosed spaces. Ireland started it.
Continue reading →Blogarithms.
The pace of life in the Blogosphere has changed. The house seems more serene; peaceful even – and purposeful.
I would venture to suggest that Bloggers have grown up; the truculent adolescents with their monosyllabic chant of ‘shan’t’,
Continue reading →Whatever Happened To…… Marxism Today
I was clearing out some papers over the Christmas break and came across various educational certificates dated from the 197o’s (when I was but a lad), and a copy of Marxism Today, then over on the
Continue reading →Hard Times?
Please Sir, can I have another Volkswagen?
By Guardianista Charlene Dickens from her Tuscan Villa……
The original:
The blacking-warehouse was the last house on the left-hand side of
Continue reading →The Lost Gospels
On 30th December last, in his excellent blog “Captain Ranty” set some of his reasons why he was unhappy with organised religion, and Christianity in particular. One of the reasons for his problem
Continue reading →VAT-This Is Not A Bolt From The Blue
The Liberal Conservatives have this morning introduced the worst way of reducing the structural deficit created by the Labour Party, but the slickest way to ensure conformity within the EU. This Directive is from 2006.
European Country Standard VAT* Reduced VAT*
Austria
Continue reading →Officially a Toddler!
‘Tis our Blogiversary today. We are two years old.
I truly didn’t think ahead two years. There was no master plan, merely a terminal boredom with the forum wars and most of all with the forum furies. If
Continue reading →Premature Articulation.
Illustration from the incomparable Nick Dewar RIP February 2010.
We have imported many trends from America; none so misunderstood as the ‘Free Speech’ trumps all other rights. I would hazard a guess that
Continue reading →Apocalypse When?
I understand that in America there are groups of people who dedicate much of their lives to making ready for a forthcoming Apocalypse, nuclear or otherwise. I believe they are called “Survivalists”. From what
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading
New Year Edition. Wrinkled Weasel heads for the truss, he needs support……. Pavlov’s Cat and the DVLA. Adam Collyer and the political Continue reading →