The arrest of Damian Green is quite appalling and so ridiculously Orwellian that I am almost tempted to vote Tory. I mean it.
– a commenter here
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November 25th, 2008 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
 “There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” – The Wisdom of Adam Smith, page 194. November 23rd, 2008 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
“In the anointed we find a whole class of supposedly “thinking people” who do remarkably little thinking about substance and a great deal of verbal expression. In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many.” Thomas Sowell, the Vision of The Anointed, page 260. His analysis applies – with the odd exception – to the political/intellectual elites responsible for the expansion of government for the past 100 years or so. November 18th, 2008 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
To the authoritarian mind, freedom and chaos are synonymous. – Commentator Ian B, er, yesterday. My guess is that ‘Ian B’ does not stand for Ian Blair, nor is it a pseudonym of Liam Byrne MP. November 16th, 2008 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
Many people have said that the internet is like the wild west in the gold rush and that sooner or later it will be regulated. What we need is for it to be regulated sooner rather than later – Barbara Follett, Minister of Kulture. November 15th, 2008 | 45 comments - (Comments are closed)
Haringey had a beautiful paper trail of how they failed to protect this baby. – Eileen Munro, London School of Economics, as paraphrased by Simon Jenkins. November 14th, 2008 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Unlike those excitable countries where the peasants overrun the presidential palace, settled democratic societies rarely vote to “go left.” Yet oddly enough that’s where they’ve all gone. In its assumptions about the size of the state and the role of government, almost every advanced nation is more left than it was, and getting lefter.” Mark Steyn. As he points out, the upcoming US government bailout of General Motors and god-knows-what-else should nail the idea that the US is the land of “unregulated capitalism”. Update: PJ O’Rourke writes in similar vein. November 12th, 2008 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
Times have changed, voters want the pendulum to swing back from spending towards tax cuts. Rumours are circulating in the Westminster Village that Gordon and Alastair are preparing to announce tax cuts. Which will, even if they are only rhetorical tax cuts, in a stroke make Dave and George look ridiculous as both Labour and the LibDems promise tax cuts and the Tories are left high and dry stranded on the high tax centre ground … – Guido November 9th, 2008 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Is all change good? No. Only good change is good. – although probably more quote of yesterday from Alice Bachini-Smith November 7th, 2008 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
But what’s not open for debate, after tonight, is the sheer futility of trying to build a coalition from the center out. Because the center won’t stand still for any candidate. – Dan McLaughlin, as pointed out by commenter Andrew X. November 5th, 2008 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
The only other thing I would add is that I am in the advertising industry and most of the ads for sub-prime loans had dried up before the recent bail-out bill. As soon as that went through the volume for these ads went up 10 times. Whatever the government did to “fix” the problem ain’t working because all they did was just give everyone who didn’t make money the first time around another shot at the craps table. – from a comment by “Ben Franklin” on this Belmont Club posting spotted by David Farrer October 19th, 2008 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
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