I was writing this as a reply to Glad, but it became so long that I thought it worth writing a bit more as post in its own right.
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Total Balls and the Art of Public Spending
Ed Balls wants growth. He wants us to spend our way out of recession.
I am all for investment. Even in a time of austerity. Maybe even precisely when things are hard. Entrepreneurs know this. Investment
Continue reading →Race for women only
The Race for Life is a fund raising event which is for females only. CRUK say that the race is for women only because that’s why it was
Continue reading →Liar! Liar!
How truthful are you? Have you been brought up by your parents to tell the truth all the time? Do you tell your children to always tell the truth?
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Mark Ferguson
Is there no vulnerability too profound to elude the attentions of the spin meister of Labour list – one Mark Ferguson? Should I really be expecting a higher standard from the
Continue reading →I am the Olympic Grinch
I am the Olympic Grinch. The Olympic Flame has arrived and the Olympic Torch is on its all inclusive strictly non elite politically correct 8,000 mile jog
Continue reading →Waste Time
I want you to waste time. Yep, you heard right. You should waste some of your time.
However I don’t want you to just sit on your arse [Sorry Anna, I promise that I won’t use
Continue reading →Design Decisions to Die For
A couple of months ago I explored the subject of the best teapot in the world, and why it was a stainless steel version made for an ocean liner in the 1950s.
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Context
So there I was idly browsing around the t’internet reading the background to the story of the spat between the ASA and Cranmer. I like to hear from
Continue reading →### Breaking ### Case against Graham Mitchell dropped
Many weeks in the past we heard about the case of Graham Mitchell who been arrested under the European Extradition Warrant.
Well now we can say that the story has come to
Continue reading →Giving Israel the Bird
Just in case you were wondering what preoccupies the waking thoughts of the readers and shareholders of the Morning Star.
The paper has both a daily quiz and
Continue reading →In praise of inequality
Wherever we go today, one of the great rallying cries is that inequality is bad. Inequality is measured around the globe and countries that are “more equal” are praised, countries that are “less equal” are vilified.
Continue reading →Cleaning up the Internet? – Audio
This is a 10 minute clip of a conversation about the blocking of ‘unacceptable’ material on the Internet, on Radio 4′s You and Yours. It highlights some of the relevant questions quite well.
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Red Headed Goddess Protection League
OK, I admit it. I have a problem with redheads.
My name is Randy Hack. And I am a redhead-aholic.
I really do have a thing about redheads. And I have form, serious form for
Continue reading →Licensed to work
You would think that when a trade requires a license before practitioners can work in it, that it increases safety for the customer. They can then enjoy the safety brought about by an organisation to which they can
Continue reading →Eulogy to Anna
Dear Brothers and Sister of the Blog
Many years ago, too many to remember, when the land was threatened by the barbarian and the thug, when law and justice were in danger, and when the nation had
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon Regrets…
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Maximum happiness
Science tells us that money can buy happiness – up to a point. There comes a time when an increase in income beyond a certain level that happiness doesn’t increase. That level is on average around
Continue reading →What Colour is Libertarianism?
Archbishop Cranmer and the ASA Holes
The Advertising Standards Authority has received a series of complaints about the above Coalition for Marriage advert running on Archbishop Cranmer’s weblog.
The complaints are about the claimed 70% figure
Continue reading →The advance of technology
I’m sure many of you will remember the tech of yesteryear. Yep, I mean the VCRs and tape recorders and record players that were
Continue reading →Why no Quips twixt Dennis’s slips?
We all have our crosses to bear.
One of mine is that for more years than I care to remember, I have been ‘represented’ by
Continue reading →Reverse Cultural Imperialism
Yesterday, nine “Asian” men were convicted of conspiracy and rape of under age girls in Rochdale and Oldham. It is no surprise to me or anyone else who lives where I live.
I live in a dreary,
Continue reading →Schuman Day
Schuman Day? What’s that? It’s another name for Europe Day. It’s a day when the creation of the European Union is observed throughout the continent. Well at
Continue reading →Eoin Clarke: Plankety-Plank
The graph above is classic Eoin Clarke: propaganda for credulous boneheads.
Take a statistic.
Find a way that simplifies and distorts
Continue reading →A Common European Language
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
Continue reading →Mole Man
William Lyttle was the Mole Man. He was the person who had this obsession with digging tunnels under his house in Hackney.
He started in 1960 as he wanted to create a wine cellar. But
Continue reading →The French Experiment
We have a new experiment.
Monsieur François Hollande est Le Président de la République.
The most immediate effect is that we all have
Continue reading →Does banning the internet work?
So the government have managed to persuade a court to have access to The Pirate bay banned. They were persuaded by Digital Rights owners who managed to lobby the
Continue reading →Suffer the Little Children
“But Jesus called them unto him, and said: Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”
(Luke 18:16)
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