…and the wilfully blind donkey you boomeranged back in on.
That goes double for our Westminster village idiots who for years have been turning sinister somersaults [see what I did there?], while waving the flag of anti-terrorism, to grab a piece of this fascist action.
Oh, a final word for our unelected EU puppet-masters just in case [...]
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Quote of the Week.
The current political class is fighting yesterday’s battles: ones that began when we were living with the illusion of unearned wealth and unconditional security. But now the party’s over. The boom busted and all we’re left to show for it is New Labour’s mega-state and its decadent moral code. Those who continue to defend these [...]
Maggie
I was born in 1973 so Margaret Thatcher was PM for my formaive years.
I very vaguely recall “Sunny Jim” and have no recollection of that fat treachorous oaf Ted Heath or of that deranged buffoon Harold “bloody” Wilson. He thought MI5 were gonna kill him. If only…
So she was my PM. In eleven years [...]
It’s awl Fatcher’s deregulation, innit?
She deregulated banking back in ‘87, and the bankers went mad, and that’s how we’re in this mess right now. Right?
Okay, at the risk of flogging a dead horse (and ignoring Gordon Brown’s spending splurge) let’s nail this nonsense once and for all with the help of Philip Booth (and a tip of the hat [...]
Get the Polis!
A little over a century ago, my local police headquarters would have been here, about a mile away in the Maryhill Burgh Halls. When the Burgh was taken into Glasgow, it moved, eventually, in 1906, to here, on the corner of Turnbull Street and St. Andrew’s Square, a couple of miles away, right in the [...]
The end of the pretence
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn had a point. I [...]
The Guild of Hacks
Simon Phipps of the Open Rights Group has an interesting take on the government’s new “press” regulations:
When an established publication publishes a diatribe, they provide an umbrella for its author to shelter them from the new threats made available through this new regulatory mechanism. They are already pretty good at shielding authors; as long as [...]
Simple Pleasures & Security Measures…
Following on from Lynne’s post below, here’s one I have been toying with for a while.
Just before Xmas I asked you good folks for tips as to what to buy the Memsahib for a present to avoid ending up sleeping on the sofa, as I am crap at presents. Well you all came up with [...]
Liberalism and Nationalism - a fatal 19th century alliance?
Libertarians sometimes say that we are really “classical liberals”, “19th century liberals”.
Of course if I actually found myself in Victorian Kettering my political opinions (against the establishment of a School Board, anti prohibition of booze, hostile to land nationalisation or even taxation…….) would mark me as a “Conservative” indeed an “arch Conservative” or a “blackhearted [...]
Back in Britain.
I have been back in Britain a few days (it feels like years), my impressions are….
“Evening Standard” on the late night-early morning train from the airport.
Weird article attacking “golf club Nazis” (for such clearly Nazi things as likeing Monty Python - no the article made no sense to me either). I have now remembered that [...]
Nothing Changes
February 5th
Today we had a meeting about the Europass. This was a completely new development. I’d never even heard of it. … It seems that [it] is a new European Identity Card, to be carried by all citizens of the EEC. The FCO, according to Humphrey, is willing to go along with the idea as [...]
Israeli Elections 2013.
The balance of power will be held by a political party headed by a television presenter (the son of a another media type) who has promised everything (education, health, housing) to everybody - and who is known (even to his actual supporters) as “Pretty Boy”.
Anyone want to explain how Representative Democracy is a good thing?
