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Footballers v. Nurses and GM Food
Tuesday, 31st August 2010
The Land Value Tax (LVT) was briefly in the news again, courtesy of Labour Party leadership contender, Andy Burnham MP. I suspect the former Minister has fastened upon the LVT because his ilk have never heard of a tax they... More
Evolution or Design? A plague a both your houses!
Sunday, 29th August 2010
At inception the labour movement was motivated to a large extent by its founders’ Christian heritage of kindness and altruism. This meant people helped one another in hard times, but malingering was not tolerated because it endangered the welfare of all. It was axiomatic that a commonwealth... More
Collectivism Always Ends Badly
Sunday, 20th June 2010
The opposite of socialism is not capitalism. It should be obvious after the credit bubble and inevitable crash that socialism and capitalism are merely two paths to the same destination. Otherwise, how could the supposed party of socialists be so cavalier about banks’ leverage, and the party... More
Saturday, 19th June 2010
Like Carrie’s arm thrusting through her grave at the end of the eponymous film, Labour, though dead possessed sufficient anger at rejection to strike at the new government. It’s no surprise that Labour’s attack drones couldn’t be disabled even though the writing was on the... More
Unaffordable Luxuries Revisited
Sunday, 13th June 2010
“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” J.M. Keynes
I thought there were only two issues to consider in the general election and they were my motivation for becoming an... More
Tuesday, 8th June 2010
Comedy cowards or a sense of humour failure?
On weekday evenings at 6.30 p.m. Radio 4 broadcasts a comedy programme, and being the BBC the comedy is edgy, which is to say it transgresses the boundaries of its putative listeners†. Those listeners are presumed to comprise Middle... More
Sunday, 16th May 2010
A few thank you's
So the general election has come and gone and Britain is governed by a fanatically pro-EU coalition of Lib Dems and “progressive” Tories (calling them Conservatives is a misnomer, since their whole campaign was based around “change”. Maybe... More
Thursday, 8th April 2010
Next Stop: Harare-on-Thames?
I want the same treatment for me and mine that MPs have arranged for themselves. Why are commuter trains into Britain’s cities, especially London, a tardy, over-crowded assault on the senses and too expensive? It’s because the people who could do... More
Monday, 5th April 2010
…never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee…(John Donne, 1624).
A similar sentiment was expressed by Pastor Martin Niemöller in 1946, and in several different versions thereafter in a series of speeches:
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Monday, 5th April 2010
Charity begins at home…and ends when the state takes over
The government deliberately conflates charity (which is private and voluntary) with state... More
