I shall refute it via the medium of interpretive dance.
I’m sure such dancers put a lot of effort into their dancing. Doesn’t mean it is of value to me because I wouldn’t cross the street to watch it.
Or possibly a refutation by carpet. In the Museum of Turkish and Islamic art in Istanbul [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2011’
The Labour Theory of Value
The State is Still Not Your Friend
I’m a few days late with this, but having finally caught up with the endgame of the Jaconellis’ house being siezed by the state, I’m literally shaking with anger. Nothing has made me quite so mad as this in all the years I’ve been following British politics, and compulsory purchase isn’t even new.
The family seems [...]
Green Kills
Families buying meat for barbecues are unlikely to be aware of their food’s controversial links because the labels on packaging will be no different from normal meat.
Note the “families” there and think of the children! As to the labelling that’s because it isn’t different to normal meat. And as to barbecues the same advice applies [...]
From Montesquieu to Voltaire - the corruption of the Enlightenment, thanks to Frederick the “Great”.
For centuries two of the standard attacks on the French Revolution have been the related attacks that it took liberty “too far” and that it applied principles rather than practical experience.
I will not, here, explore the debate of whether the above was Edmund Burke’s view of the French Revolution (I will simply say that I [...]
Mexican Wank Off
DPM Clegg has delivered another one off the wrist after pre-empting a recently commissioned review into the safety of UK nuclear power stations following the Fukushima incident. So, like a bastard child of Mystic Meg and Angus McTango, he’s using the barely underway and unpublished review to rip the balls off the only coherent [...]
Never invite a palaeoclimatologist to a party…
Scientists have come up with new evidence in support of the controversial idea that humanity’s influence on climate began not during the industrial revolution, but thousands of years ago. Proposed by palaeoclimatologist William Ruddiman in 2003, the theory says that human influences offset the imminent plunge into another ice age and helped create the relatively [...]
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
As Nick says, it’s all go this weekend. Sometimes - you may have noticed - I find this blogging thing a bit tough. I expect if I’d enetered it off my own bat, rather than being invited, I’d have packed it in by now. I either can’t think of anything to say, or - and [...]
Something for the weekend
Well, it’s all go ain’t it?
Yesterday we had the cuts protest in London which with the Met’s usual brilliance was badly policed. This is what appeared to have happened. 250,000 turn up and they are generally peaceful. There is maybe 300-500 hoodlums and 4,500 coppers but the cops patrol the entire thing and don’t [...]
Quote of the Day
All over the world you can see Jewish memorials, Jewish monuments - they’re called cemeteries, in places where once were Jews and now are none. And that’s how anti-Semites like it.
Jews don’t need memorials, they need a living presence.
Mark Steyn
When every second counts
The police are only minutes away.
Britain Rocked as Millions Join Non-Protest
The streets of cities across Britain were packed today with millions of people not protesting against boy Chancellor Georgie Osborne’s cuts of £-80bn over four years. People crowded into the country’s urban centres going about their normal weekend business, failing to wave SWP-printed placards or chant angrily about the government’s imaginary austerity measures. This reporter [...]
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I went to buy a Coke at the local Co-op…
Well, the deputy manager looks un-gruntled and asks the lad on the till, “Steve, you seen 8,000 Bakewell slices?” to which he replies in the negative because I guess if you ever see 8,000 of anything much you tend not to forget it. At this point [...]
Shooters
I flicked on the telly box to BBC News this morning and…
Well they had guests. They had a posh young man from Wiltshire who had had a shotgun certificate since he was 11 and some dismal old trout from wherever wearing what looked like the torso of the Honey Monster in waistcoat fashion. She apparently [...]
