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We have said it before, but it bears repetition, that the coming EU referendum campaign will be the first internet campaign in our history and I remain convinced that the material on the net will have a decisive impact on the course of the campaign. – Richard North, already quoted and linked to by Patrick Crozier as a response to my gloomier posting here January 12th, 2005 | 70 comments - (Comments are closed)
Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, showing some political leadership in his “State of the State” address. January 7th, 2005 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
[T]here is not much future in being a gatekeeper when the walls are down. – the final words of this article by Jack Kelly about the travails of old school journalism January 4th, 2005 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Environmentalism is the banging shithouse door that the socialists are finally going to find themselves able to barge through and screw us all. January 1st, 2005 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
How I feel about Africans is not relevant. Even if I hate them, it is not relevant. Trade barriers are relevant, and removing them is crucial. December 27th, 2004 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
The goose is nothing, but man has made it an instrument for the output of a marvellous product, a kind of living hothouse in which there grows the supreme fruit of gastronomy. December 25th, 2004 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
These exciting and unexplained cleaning events have kept Opportunity in really great shape. – Mars rover team leader Jim Erickson at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explaining that “something” has been cleaning the solar panels of the rover Opportunity while it was parked during the Martian night, and that as a consequence its power levels are much higher than was expected at this stage of the mission. Two observations. (a) It looks like the Martians are friendly. (b) I wish I could have “exciting and unexplained cleaning events” in my bathroom. (Link via slashdot). December 24th, 2004 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
Self defence, wrote William Blackstone, the 18th-century jurist, is a “natural right that no government can deprive people of, since no government can protect the individual in his moment of need”. This Government insists upon having a monopoly on the use of force, but can only impose it upon law-abiding people. By practically eliminating self defence, it has removed the greatest deterrent to crime: a people able to defend themselves. December 23rd, 2004 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
This is depressing. Especially when I think that I survived communism without ever being fingerprinted… December 21st, 2004 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Next time I’m at a party and I meet someone who works for a publishing company, I’m going to get him in a headlock and push his face into a cake. – Some consumer feedback from Harry Hutton – something about British books being made with the wrong sort of paper. December 21st, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Some people will forever be chasing the chimera of better government. This shields them from the idea that the only option is less government December 20th, 2004 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. December 17th, 2004 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
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