I have a little sympathy with IanB, but I must emphasise, only a little. I understand his anger and his frustration, but much as I admire his understanding and insight I have always felt his comments to be far too pessimistic for my taste.
Fashions change, viewpoints alter, and a robust debate is still possible. However, [...]
Posts under ‘Ian Himself’
My Last Post
As of this moment in time, it’s my intention that this will be my last post or comment or rant or rave or whatnot on the libertarianoblogophere (or whatever it’s called). I should immediately add that I’m not doing a bit silly Old Holbornesque flouncing out or anything, and it’s certainly nothing to do with [...]
The Progressive Commandments
One of the blogosphere’s finest bloggers Dick Puddlecote thought a comment I made over at Letters From A Tory worthy of repeating, so I thought I’d repeat it here too…
The Progressive Commandments
Thou shalt not imbibe of intoxicating liquor, nor of intoxicants of any kind, nor of any thing which maketh thee a bit giggly nor [...]
Nick Himself
I was working late last night and didn’t go to bed until after 5am, then slept exceedingly and unusually long and deep, and had a very vivid and strange dream in which Cats, Nick and myself were fighting a fierce war in desert terrain with lobster tails for ammunition, and then suddenly an army of [...]
Kitty Kounters
We started out a little over a year ago with a single Aussie Cat Counter labouring away, stuck in the far colonies and condemned to a life of sun, sea and sand, surrounded by blond beauties wearing naught bar skimpy halters and bits of string. After enduring this I was relieved in my efforts when [...]
Being A Bit Of A Big Kid
I’ve just ordered one of these. It’s a simple little bit of kit, just a USB stereo in/stereo out audio interface. But I feel quite tickled and can’t wait for it to arrive kind of thing.
A couple of days ago I realised I hadn’t played my electric guitar since I moved into this flat (over [...]

