A thought has occurred to me, whilst watching lefties witter on about the “awful waste” that was the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
This was government spending, the kind of spending the same lefties are calling
Continue reading →Waste? Or Investment?
Sugar and Spice and Puppy Dog Tales…
What is our role as parents? Is it to protect our children from the harsh reality of the cruel world out there, to preserve a Disney varnished version
Continue reading →The Jubilee Line?
Technically, I cannot really endorse the Royal Family. However, this is not because I a radical Republican and radical democrat. Far from it!
The trouble is that in my admittedly somewhat eccentric World view, they are
Continue reading →Manbags and waistcoats
Many apologies for concentrating on male fashion, but I think female fashion gets quite a bit of press already.
Fashion changes to suit the environment and
Continue reading →Beauty in numbers
Statistics and numbers can be pretty boring. Long lists of numbers or charts showing lots of wavy wiggly lines with no meaning.
But numbers and figures
Continue reading →Cookies & Biscuits
Just a quick post to say that cookie control has been enabled as per the EU Cookie Directive, boo hiss.
A right pain in
Continue reading →A worse crime
Last week, 32 children were among 90 people killed in Houla, Syria. The international community has united in its condemnation of the people responsible for
Continue reading →Luck of the Draw
Given the proportion of our species living in poverty
Relative to that which lives comfortably
Given the sheer scale of deprivation across the globe
It was as likely,
Diamond Jubilee Photo
This is the best 60th Jubilee photo I have seen.
Hat-tip: Peter Ould, who writes an Exercise in the Fundamentals of
Continue reading →More poor journalism: BBC Syria photo
Last time I pointed out Rob Shephard‘s lack of research when he used a tweet as a primary source.
This time around
Continue reading →Jubilee Photo Competition
Something to get you in the mood for the weekend – or not. Depends on whether you are a Monarchist or Republican.
Continue reading →Democracy in action?
Democracy is the process by which the citizens of a country, all who have an equal opurtunity, get to decide together how they want their nation to be
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