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Sad But Mad Lad
The real green energy
Green energy is not solar power and wind turbines. It’s the gradual improvements in electronics over the last thirty years. There’s probably been more saving of energy through efficicienes created through the invention of new devices than that created
Continue reading →Science Fiction
It seems some commentators on AR have read a little science fiction if the comments on Ray Bradbury’s coda is anything to go by.
So what is it about SF (please don’t use the
Continue reading →State of the economy
As I understand the current economic situation, we’re not part of the Euro so we should be able to ride out it’s demise better than others.
But we have to be able to react to the
Continue reading →Last one to leave, please turn off the lights
The infamous joke that could “the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights” was aimed at Neil Kinnock. The Sun used it as a headline because they believed that Labour’s policies would be
Continue reading →Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury who has just died, wrote the famous Fahrenheit 451 book which was about a dystopian future where books were outlawed because the pace of life had become quick and where
Continue reading →20p / 21 weeks
The length of jail sentence for the “ranting racist woman on the tube” has been handed down at 21 weeks.
Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42*, who was drunk whilst travelling on a tube train and who
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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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 →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 →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 →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?
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Human Achievement Hour
Tonight at half past eight is the start of Earth Hour. This is the hour when the Earth should be given some priority in people’s minds. Or at least that is what the greenies say. Myself,
Continue reading →Proles, Sheeple, Plebs
Many times I’ve heard bloggers and commentators write that everyone who isn’t active in politics is the cause of the problem with society. It’s because these people aren’t bothered about their country or society that the elite have
Continue reading →Yes, Prime Minister
Well it seems that you can’t keep a good TV series down. Yes, Prime Minister is to return to our digital pay-tv screens sometime this year.
UKTV
Continue reading →Fantasy government
So we know that the current government are a shower of numbnuts by their handling of the tanker driver’s dispute and subsequent fuel shortages. We also know that the previous lot were worse seeing as we are now
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