Some people are just neurotically sceptical. But even they won’t deny what is before their eyes. Is there anyone who seriously questions the fact that Saddam Hussein is dead? That’s the way to do things these days. Don’t launch a bloody, decade defining series of wars and then refuse to release photos of a dead body, or better still display the actual body, because you’re worried it’ll upset people. Shoot the ****** in the head on camera then release it on youtube.
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Well, call Ghost Busters if you like but for heaven’s sake do not call the Plod.
Well Tracy got quite a life lesson, eh? Where on earth did she get notion the State gives a damn about her right to self defence from some predatory ‘Traveller’ thugs? The rule is simple… are you a home owner? Never. Ever. Call. The. Police. They are not there to protect you. Just file this under ‘the State is not your friend’… April 27th, 2011 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)
 There is a nice exposé in the Telegraph indicating that tax money and the tax funded BBC are funding key people and institutions in the warmist/environmental movement. The article provides a useful who’s-who of establishment figures with their snouts in the public trough… …but what a pity they did not just read the indispensable Biased-BBC blog because the Telegraph could have written this exposé more than a year ago. April 24th, 2011 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
This worthy project is about trying to get folks to examine their underpinning meta-context… the unspoken ‘givens’ that we all use to frame our view of the world that almost always go unexamined: well if you think that, then surely this should follow, no? … and if you manage to reach people on that level, you can change many of their conclusions about a great many things. April 21st, 2011 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)
A message from the people of Iceland to the global political establishment…
By rejecting the absurd notion that governments can legitimately make taxpayers liable for bad commercial decisions by banks, Iceland shows itself as an island of sanity in a global sea of madness. April 10th, 2011 | 30 comments - (Comments are closed)
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It is 8:30 pm in London and ‘Earth Day’ has begun. Every single light in our house and garden have now been turned on. March 26th, 2011 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
Imagine you are walking down the street and a man in a suit walks up to you holding a large cudgel… “Excuse me,” he says, “I have seen you walk down this street on a daily basis wearing a tee-shirt and in future I would like you to wear a suit and tie to raise the tone of the neighbourhood.” “Er, no,” you reply, “I am happy dressed the way I am.” “I see,” the man replies, “well I would rather not have to threaten to hit you with this cudgel if you do not do what I say so I want you to voluntarily agree to wear a suit and tie.” “But you are threatening to hit me with that cudgel!” you point out. “No,” he says, “I will only threaten to hit you with this cudgel if you don’t do what I want voluntarily.” This statement of the bleedin’ obvious by me was brought on this sadly typical piece of ‘press release’ style journalism:
So rather than writing an article that explains the dynamic of what is going on here, Rosa Prince in effect just delivers a government press release complete with the approved spin… ‘voluntary’… ‘not nanny state’… Why exactly does The Telegraph need to have a ‘political correspondent’ at all rather than just republishing whatever the government wishes? What value is Rosa Prince actually adding here? The fact that these food industry groups agreed to do something under threat of compulsory measures means that this clearly is a prime example of the ‘Nanny State’ in action… and moreover if there is an explicit threat of legal coercion, how is this in any meaningful sense ‘voluntary’? February 19th, 2011 | 53 comments - (Comments are closed)
… Kenneth Clarke invariably supports anything with “european” in front of it. If they re-named ebola virus “european virus”, I expect he’d declare himself in favour of that, too. – Owen Morgan commenting on James Kirkup’s Daily Telegraph blog February 10th, 2011 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
A rat has been photographed outside 10 Downing Street. Presumably the only thing that makes this news worthy is it was not exiting the building and getting into an official chauffeured government vehicle on its way to Parliament. January 25th, 2011 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
John Hawkins: Now, in recent years we started to hear more people calling to get rid of the Federal Reserve. Good idea, bad idea? What are your thoughts? Thomas Sowell: Good idea. John Hawkins: Good idea? What do you think we should replace it with? What do you think we should do? Thomas Sowell: Well it’s like when you remove a cancer what do you replace it with? January 24th, 2011 | 63 comments - (Comments are closed)
I reacted rather badly the other day to Baroness Warsi’s weird rant about ‘bigotry‘ towards Muslims but it is gratifying to see I was not the only one who her remarks rubbed the wrong way. Warsi seems to be of the view that unless you have a positive view of Islam, it is not really acceptable for you to express your opinions in polite society even in private ‘around the dinner table’. That someone who is a member of the establishment in the UK could think that notion was going to fly is a measure of the disconnect between some people ‘at the top’ and us oiks out in the real world. January 22nd, 2011 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)
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