… or as guests at Maggie’s funeral did I honestly see Geoffrey Howe and Michael Heseltine? And I heard that José Manuel Barroso was there. What were that vile trinity planning upon - dancing upon her grave?
At another level, according to the BBC News, some scumbags threw stuff at the horses in the cortege. That [...]
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Was it just me…
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 [...]
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 [...]
Roman law, modern law and “Feudal” law - a hint as to what that wild madman Paul Marks is on about.
I am no legal expert (”we have noticed Paul”), but I do want to give an hint about what I am on about when I mention the words “Feudal law” or Roman law or modern law - it if be wrong….. well see later for my “get out of jail” card on that.
Before I say [...]
Greedy capitalist corporation really nonprofit state entity.
All the msm in the United States (including Fox News) are treating the “Long Island Power and Light Company” as a greedy capitalist corporation which is letting people sit in the cold and dark while it counts its profits.
There is a problem with this picture. The “Long Island Power and Light Comany” DOES NOT EXIST [...]
Ain’t it the truth:
In a different polity, in a different system, substitute Obama for Gillard, and you have the same media corruption:
I have many mates in the media. None of the senior people I speak with dispute the following statement, but the statement guides our media and thus what the nation learns about itself nonetheless.
Julia Gillard’s credibility is [...]
Support Mitt Romney - says Paul Marks.
Yes I know this means that Governor Romney is doomed. My support tends to have that effect…
I also know that I have been attacking Mitt Romney for years.
However, the endorsements of Comrade Barack Obama by Mayor Health Fascist Bloomberg, and the vile Economist magazine, are just too much.
If they are on one side - I [...]
Superstorm Sandy
US East Coast readers (like Bod) I really hope you, your family and pets and property is OK. I really do.
Superstorm Sandy sounds like a ’80s porn star. I guess not all blow-jobs are that good.
Sorry, but I’m English to the hilt and bad humour is how we react. To everything really.
If I [...]
The “Chicago Way” with unemployment numbers.
Since Comrade Barack Obama has been President of the United States of America unemployment has been above 8% of the workforce (a workforce that is smaller than it used to be - inspite of the working age population growing, work that one out) - now (a few weeks before the election) the Federal government declares [...]
Friday night Jabberwocky
So, the Muppets?
The University of Utah Singers?
Or Count Dracula himself?
The terrible year of 1986.
A post on an often overlooked year - 1986. A year in which events occured that had (and are having) terrible consequences.
A British person when hearing of the date “1986″ will think (if they think of anything) of the “Single European Act” - formally it came into effect in 1987, but the agreement was made [...]
Disagreement
Anyone want to disagree with my position on this? I am normally a fan of Calallaxy, but for one of Australia’s premier libertarian blogs I’m disappointed with the quality of the arguments, both in the posting and the comments.
Modern Journalism
Fascinating discussion with an Associate Professor of Journalism here.
What is fascinating is not the quality of discourse, but the extent to which said Professor treats smear and misrepresentation as acceptable tools while pursuing his journalistic practice.
No need to guess which comments are mine.
We’ve never had it so good
And we’ve had it for so long we’re forgetting how bad it was.
It takes just a few lousy generations:
My mother, in her eighties, has told me about the depression and the pre war years. Her mother struggling to feed her family while the men in the family struggled to find work in in depression hit [...]
