I strive to legitimise the proactive use of common sense
To no one theory should we have any adherence
There’s not just one problem on which we should be focusing
Nor a single strategy that we should be pursuing
In lieu of
Yearly Archives: 2012
Sunny Hundal’s Political Full House
(Trivia Warning: London Mayoral froth)
Brilliant stuff from the Hundal Monster, explaining to the world from how he
Continue reading →How are you going to vote?
So today is the day of the local elections and the London Mayoral elections.
How are you going to (or did) vote? Considering that many
Continue reading →Religious Fervour is Maddie-ness.
Killers don’t care about the death penalty
There is no evidence that the death penalty works. Researchers have concluded that the death penalty doesn’t have any effect on murder rates. Or to be more exact, the
Continue reading →The calibre of the candidates in Bradford is measured in milimetres…
Is Bradford about to secede from the United Kingdom? You could be forgiven for wondering if it is not a separate ‘country’ these days.
The sitting MP, he of
Continue reading →The Metropolitan Thought Police
A strange incident, but not unfamiliar.
A policeman goes past an art gallery in Mayfair on a bus, and sees the artwork
Continue reading →How to use your right of free speech
Free speech is about the right to make your views known. It is also about the right to offend others so that they may use their free speech to offend you in return.
Now normally when a
Continue reading →Hacked Off – Why The Secrecy?
The industry I have loathed and loved for more decades than I care to remember is going through the sort of public beasting which was reserved for witches in medieval England. No doubt there
Continue reading →Free Will and Social Services.
The Lord Chancellor, as he was fondly known and had been for about 1400 years, until Tony Blair sought to distance himself from the wallpapering disaster known as Derry Irvine, devising a system of Kremlin-lite titles until finally
Continue reading →An Open Letter to Nick Clegg MP
The Right Honourable Nick Clegg MP
c/o The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
70 Whitehall
SW1A 2AS
28th April 2012 Dear Deputy Prime Minister,
You have never met me, but I am writing
Continue reading →The Walter Duranty Prize
What’s the Walter Duranty Prize you may ask? Have you heard of the Pulitzer prize? You have? Good. Well the Duranty prize is the opposite of the Pulitzer prize.
We have the Oscars for
Continue reading →The Philosophy of Post-Ideology
Ditch Socialism as a political ideology
And Capitalism as a political ideology
If nobody can agree on what these things mean
Then implementing them is no more than a dream
If we
The Thrills and Spills of the European Parliament…Part 1.
Whatever possessed me to promise to commit myself to writing about Euro MPs in way that was not ‘dry and dusty’. What was I thinking of? Perhaps I have just
Continue reading →Asino, the blogging donkey…
I shared Gildas’ rage yesterday; he fared better than I, he was actually able to articulate his rage. PMQs left me quite speechless and I abandoned the effort to write.
PMQs has become
Continue reading →Rage!
I have been listening to PMQ’s. I am raging. I don’t do good rage normally.
Today I do.
We are told today that in the first quarter of this year
Continue reading →If I wanted Britain to fail…
If I wanted Britain to fail …
To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream.
I would start with energy.
I’d cut off Britain’s supply of cheap, abundant energy.
Continue reading →Trigger’s Broom
The Cutty Sark is going to be reopened to the public on Thursady after a £50m refit and restoration project. A fire destroyed nearly all of it
Continue reading →The ‘beautiful blame’…
The feministas and their supporters are having a field day today – a football field day. It is not enough for them that they have seen the conviction of a
Continue reading →When two tribes go to war
Ken Livingstone has probably damaged himself irrecoverably with his hysterical and hypocritical talk of tax avoidance and so he very unlikely to win the London Mayoral election. People seem to accept
Continue reading →Happy St George’s Day
I bet many of you haven’t realised that it’s St George’s Day today. For some reason there is huge amount of publicity about other countries national days
Continue reading →Desperate for a story.
The Sunday Times today is running one of its periodic ‘investigations’. This is why they are behind a paywall apparently. The subject is the emotive one (to the feministas -some
Continue reading →Libertarian Revival?
Long ago, when I was a mere slip of a girl, and RipVanWinkle had only just dozed off, I pitched up at the London Hilton for a job
Continue reading →Hard pressed MPs.
We, being a noisy, uncontrollable rabble, vote for MPs to be our voice in the House of Commons. Such is the theory anyway.
We, being a
Continue reading →The £ in their cassocks…
Renaissance Man
To be a renaissance man
Specifically, this requires you to look at life holistically
A polymath grafts to view no graph in isolation
A zoologist philosopher like Kropotkin in northern Asia
Yearning
Paedomageddon
Do children read the Daily Mail? Do they listen to the BBC news? Probably some do, but if the NSPCC is really concerned about alerting children to the dangers of
Continue reading →The Aberdonian Candidate.
The Electoral Commission has done us a disservice.
Whilst they are quite happy to accept an
Continue reading →Central Office of Propoganda closed
The Central Office of Information (COI) has closed it’s doors after 65 years.
Is this because it is no longer necessary to dictate to the public who
Continue reading →Renegade Criminologist
Rehabilitation and its discontents
This penal largesse simply makes no sense in any context
A flawless denial of the mainstream consciousness
On top of this, I am unable to resist the chance