What an exciting time it is to be alive: ours still is the golden age of scientific discovery, creationists and other ignoramuses notwithstanding.
–Abiola Lapite, commenting on yet more advances in genetics.
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I had never heard the word blogger until May 25 . But now I know them well because of all the amazing coverage they had of the protests. My friends overseas all followed what happened through the blogs, because they have more credibility than the mainstream media. August 24th, 2005 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 We spent all this money to do things legally and right, and all the sudden it becomes illegal to do something legal The state is not your friend, Nick. August 23rd, 2005 | 65 comments - (Comments are closed)
There is no “tolerance”, there are only changing fashions in intolerance. August 22nd, 2005 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
“I do not really think the House of Commons is ‘My Cup of Tea’, I am too much of an individualist, and also, too self-centred and set in my ways. Enough if I remain a mute, just adequate back-bencher, but frankly most of the problems that so excite ‘the Hon. Members’ leave me quite cold and indifferent.” – Sir Henry “Chips” Channon in his diary entry for December 5th 1935. August 15th, 2005 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
August 13th, 2005 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
A minority of musicians not only dislike the capitalist world, but they believe they can eschew it. Some of them have set up the sort of micro-firms that capitalism makes so easy to do. So they have spurned being sub-contractors or suppliers to large firms, and have become entrepreneurs instead – and think of it as rebellion. – Richard D. North in Rich is Beautiful August 12th, 2005 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
GR: Do you think our technological civilization *is* fragile? SS: On the contrary, I think it’s immensely resilient. Note that famines generally occur in countries where peasant farmers are still the majority! It’s precisely the complexity that makes it so hard to damage; economies are like ecosystems, they’re more stable as they grow more complex. They work around damage. – Science Fiction writer S.M. Stirling (interviewed by Glenn Reynolds), stating something that is pretty obvious when you think about it. I think I would also argue that the global communications and global supply chains that have come into existence in the last few years make it dramatically more resilient rather than less. There are vastly more brains linked together and these supply chains actually contain massive redundancy. August 11th, 2005 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The Government uses a false dichotomy that liberty and security have to be traded off against each other. But you can indeed have both life and liberty. The freedom to express yourself short of inciting violence does not threaten security but bolsters it: I want to know exactly who my enemies are by reading their freely spoken words. And when they cross the line and incite people to terrorism, I want the Government to do the one thing with my tax money of which I approve: protect me from these nutters by throwing them in jail or out of the country.” – Perry de Havilland writing in today’s Times of London. August 10th, 2005 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)
– Martha Kearney. Let us hope Gordon Brown was not watching, eh? August 8th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The Central American Free Trade Agreement is just at the beginning of a century of trade liberalisation, more significant and powerful than any previous wave of liberalisation. Europe and Britain can either choose to follow the path of America, Asia and China, or it should prepare for a century of decline. If the EU is to avoid long-term economic stagnation, it has to welcome globalisation – not fight it.” – Alex Singleton writing in The Business newspaper. August 6th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Lords Chancellors are political appointees, and certainly should not be idealised. But our Dear Leader is widely believed not to know or care about the past. So that the following dialogue is fiction should not be a problem.
— Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons Or is it more important to look tough and caution be damned? August 6th, 2005 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
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