There’s a very important sounding letter in tomorrow’s Telegraph from hundreds of photographers who are angry that the government is violating their rights with anti-terrorism powers. Alex Singleton says it’s significant because “the signatories are not a bunch of lippy anarchists, but a roll-call of establishment figures”. The letter writers are demanding a change in the law and the recognition that terrorists don’t need to lug about heavy Nikons and tripods.
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December 26th, 2009 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
 It’s not enough to be rich and famous if you’re not somehow “relevant”. Whether it’s Prince Charles or Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio or any of these other guys, they all have the same message: “Hey, I deserve to live like this. Now shut up and shiver in the dark, you peasants”. December 12th, 2009 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
– These are adjustments being made to five year average temperatures over the last century. I do not need to say where this comes from, do I? Blimey. November 25th, 2009 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
The extremely worthy TPA has a nifty new promo for their new book that dares to think the unthinkable… The book, Ten Years On, is available to order free here. November 18th, 2009 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
The internet is strange. November 18th, 2009 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
This trend toward prescriptive behaviour is a direct result of abandoning the Rule of law for a “Law” of Rules. – commenter R. Richard Schweitzer November 15th, 2009 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
From time to time I get into a lot of trouble with my allies because I express skepticism of the value of prescriptive rights, regulation or transparency. In fact am inclined to think (though there may be tactical advantage in their reception in law) human rights are an ornamental distraction from the pursuit of liberty, Gucci belts for those who think buying trousers is disgusting. One of the reasons we are in such a terrible mess in the UK is that those on the left who used to care about personal liberty became utterly infatuated with the legalism, having been given the Human Rights Act as a pretty distraction, and now spend all their time defending its importance. November 14th, 2009 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
“…how will the media blame it on the failure of capitalism?” Well, you know, China started market-friendly practices, it goes belly up, nothing bad ever happened in Mao’s China, and so on. The editorial in The Guardian writes itself. – Commenter ‘Dom‘ November 11th, 2009 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
The predicted insanity of “quantitative easing” (i.e. re-inflating the bubble) is laid bare:
I would quite like to see the people responsible for one of the greatest rolling acts of theft in recent history hanging from lampposts. Bernie Madoff was a minor league player by comparison. November 2nd, 2009 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Wise words have been heard coming from the lips of someone in the acting profession, to wit multi-talented MILF action babe Milla Jovovich.
Common sense of course and that she had to even say this is an indication of the extent to which civil society has decayed. Violent art forms are as old as art itself. 
November 2nd, 2009 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
The trouble is rules based safety nets often end up subsidising what they are supposed to be alleviating. The big advantage a charity has is that they do not have to give you anything if they do not think you actually deserve it… the state on the other hand operates (quite rightly) not by using discretion but by following politically derived formulae. To get things from the state all you have to do is understand the system. This has all manner of unintended consequences when you (in effect) nationalise charity and replace private institutions with public ones… in short, when you replace charity with an entitlement, you completely change the rules of the game. November 2nd, 2009 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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