This obsession with tax avoidance is not the mark of a morally enlightened society. It is the mark of a society that is refusing to face up to the real problems in its midst. There is no moral clarity to be gained from gawping at individuals’ tax returns, only moral scapegoating.
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Ok, this had me re-reading it several times as I was not sure if I was misunderstanding something. Someone called Max Fisher was taking exception to this.
The replies are pretty amusing. February 15th, 2015 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
 You are probably all aware of the attack in Denmark earlier today by certain advocates of the religion of peace. But this is inspiring stuff:
They had my respect regardless for simply holding the meeting in the first place, but doubly so now. February 14th, 2015 | 33 comments - (Comments are closed)
If Russia now presumes to dictate what should be the constitutional order in Ukraine and if he has gained the assent of the German chancellor and the French president, Landsbergis continues, then the world has the right, even the obligation to ask, “when will you begin to observe the [Russian] Constitution, Mr. Putin?” […] The Lithuanian leader said that he was disappointed that German Chancellor Angela Merkel apparently accepted Putin’s “puppet theater” when she suggested that the Kremlin leader had put pressure on the separatists to sign the agreement. To say that is also to give them a status independent of Moscow which they do not deserve. – Paul Goble discussing the views of Vytautas Landsbergis February 14th, 2015 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
We are now living in a corporate economy. We are living in an economy where capitalism, free markets, enterprise and ambition have been replaced and are often crushed by a modern form of corporatism, which is supported by all three political parties and the trade union movement. I by no means agree with Farage on everything (to put it mildly) but I cannot argue at all with that remark. February 13th, 2015 | 39 comments - (Comments are closed)
Oh good, a peace deal has been hammered out for the Ukraine.
… and in other news that is no doubt unrelated…
Thank goodness we have Putin’s word for it that Russia is not sending troops and large quantities of equipment into the Ukraine as part of a barely disguised invasion, for a moment then I thought there might be vastly less to this ‘deal’ than met the eye. February 12th, 2015 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)
Obey and you have nothing to fear.
Many people in the UK clearly think the book 1984 was an interesting suggestion rather than a warning. I know what that reminds me of. February 10th, 2015 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is fascinating to see Members of Parliament and Rabbis joining forces to ban free speech. Indeed it is even more fascinating to see Rabbis and Imams (and indeed the Pope) all steadily uniting to undermine one of the primary pillars upon which modern liberal western civilisation rests, which is to say freedom of expression. And of course I mean liberal not in the nonsensical debased American sense of the word (by which they mean something that is illiberal). February 9th, 2015 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
… because last night I visited full time evil genius and part time mad scientist So now I grasp things that mankind was never meant to know, the terrible forbidden knowledge… Only the bravest should gaze upon what lies below this line, you have been warned… February 8th, 2015 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
The best way any government in the UK can bring prosperity is not by being ‘pro-business’ but rather by being ‘pro-market’. Labour sneeringly loathes both business and markets, the LibDems do not understand either and the Tories do not grasp that there is even a difference. The solution? Try to do your business in Hong Kong, Singapore or New Zealand if you realistically have such a choice. February 6th, 2015 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
The statistical methods used in the paper are so bad as to merit use in a class on how not to do applied statistics. All this paper demonstrates is that climate scientists should take some basic courses in statistics and Nature should get some competent referees. February 6th, 2015 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
Ah, the ‘do it again, only HARDER’ fallacy espoused by so many pro-regulation types. I still wonder why people assume that something will be good if you sprinkle the magic pixie dust of government on it. – ‘Toastrider‘, discussing ‘Net Neutrality’ February 5th, 2015 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
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