An independent Ireland – an interesting idea, so when are they leaving the E.U. then?
Surely rule from Brussels is no more “independence” than rule from London.
– Paul Marks
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There is also a difference in the begging aspects of the two traditions. For Guy Fawkes night, kids would club together and build a realistic looking mannekin and a cart to drag it around on. Then they would accost strangers in the street and request “A penny for the Guy, guv?”. On Halloween, kids band together, dress up in menacing costumes, invade people’s property, bang on their door and demand tribute with the threat of violence. So which tradition teaches our kids how best to survive in the twenty-first century. – Commenter Kevin B November 6th, 2012 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The Americans will always do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted – attributed to Winston Churchill October 28th, 2012 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 1st, 2012 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
Together with other central banks, the ECB is flooding the market, posing the question not only about how the ECB will get its money back, but also how the excess liquidity created can be absorbed globally. It can’t be solved by pressing a button. If the global economy stabilises, the potential for inflation has grown enormously September 22nd, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Did you hear what John Major had to say yesterday? “The ‘green shoots‘ of economic recovery are on the way as ‘darkest moment’ passed” Oh my God, I guess we are closer to the brink than I thought. – Perry de Havilland over a glass with some Samizdatistas. September 16th, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
It says here “Egyptian protesters condemned what they said was the humiliation of the Prophet of Islam under the pretext of freedom of speech”… Pretext? I don’t think that word means what they think it does, unless it lost something in translation. – from a conversation overheard between two people in a cafe in London, reading the news on their iThingies. September 11th, 2012 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
Profiling whole populations instead of monitoring individual suspects is a sinister step in any society. It’s dangerous enough at national level, but on a Europe-wide scale the idea becomes positively chilling. September 2nd, 2012 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)
Not so long ago, politicians in both Britain and America were preparing for a political realignment. Labour was readying itself not just for defeat but annihilation, and the biggest surprise on election night was how many of its MPs were left still standing. Obama’s 2008 victory was accompanied by hubristic talk of a new Democrat era – but Republicans were back to take control of the House of Representatives two years later. The global debt crisis has created problems too big for any government, Left or Right, to solve easily. As a result, incumbents everywhere are vulnerable – and politics is becoming thrillingly unpredictable. – Fraser Nelson, who apparently has only just noticed which lizard get elected for being the lesser evil does not actually matter all that much when the choice is between getting fucked by Lizard A or buggered by Lizard B. August 30th, 2012 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
I used to consider myself a patriot… no more. There is simply nothing to be proud about and we have the government the voters deserve. But I didn’t leave England, England left me. – Thaddeus Tremayne, overheard over dinner. August 12th, 2012 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
July 6th, 2012 | 35 comments - (Comments are closed)
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. – P. J. O’Rourke June 29th, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
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