Actually it was a much cheerier gathering than I expected: usually the Tories have a leader who embarrasses them, but this year they have no leader and everyone’s full of beans.
– Eamonn Butler at the Conservative Party Conference
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The political system tends to lag behind technological change, which is often a good thing. I remember attending a House subcommittee hearing in the 1980s on whether the U.S. should create a phone-computer system modeled on the state-funded French Minitel, a text-only network being promoted as the wave of the future. Fortunately, the Internet exploded – making Minitel obsolete – before Congress could fund such a project. – Glenn Harlan Reynolds reviewing this book October 4th, 2005 | 31 comments - (Comments are closed)
Colin MacCabe, writing in the Observer, on why he has left the Labour Party. October 2nd, 2005 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
Meanwhile, you’ve got how many (admittedly very stupid) Australians in Indonesian prisons for something like 20 years on drug charges? So I guess the message here is kill some infidels and you’ll get two years with time off for good behavior, have a couple tabs of ecstasy on you and you’ll do 20 years in a third world prison. October 1st, 2005 | 34 comments - (Comments are closed)
– Joss Whedon September 30th, 2005 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
What does this, have in common with this, What’s different is also interesting. The police being used as as an instrument to suppress peaceful political dissent is one thing, but their doing it on their own initiative is if anything more worrying. September 25th, 2005 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
– Making the Law, Hansard Society, 1993. So much for separation of powers in the view of serious British parliamentarians. September 22nd, 2005 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
– Commenter thoreau, at Hit and Run. September 19th, 2005 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
For centuries, philosophers and poets have tried to understand what happiness is, and what might contribute to it. In recent decades, scientists have started to come up with the answers. Happiness is electrical activity in the left front part of the brain, and it comes from getting married, getting friends, getting rich, and avoiding communism. September 19th, 2005 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
In an interview for the New York Daily News in 1997, the actor and entertainer Clint Eastwood explained how the world would change if politicians adopted a flat tax:
Go ahead, Gordon. Make our day. September 18th, 2005 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
In fact, the only fun and spontaneous bit was booing Livingstone, but I assume that was edited out. If those feet in ancient times really did walk upon England’s mountains green, they’d have found themselves with Sue Barker sticking a microphone in their countenance divine… For our Trans-Atlantic brethren who do not get the reference, the words of the hymn Jerusalem can he found here or hear it here (Real Audio required). September 17th, 2005 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humour September 16th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
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