The UK News Network quotes Jesse who writes: And to put an edge on it, the New Stateman reports that Mervyn King suggests that the coming austerity to be imposed on UK citizens to support the City Banks will ensure that the next party in power will not be elected again for many many years. [...]
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Jane were one of the most atmospheric outfits of all time. Novalis [below] showed that the Germans did intensity very well. From 2:40 on, it reminds me of the way the East German football team played:
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Gentle warning – if you are at all queazy, please don’t watch this video. What will happen to Brown and Blair after their 13 years of oppression and social engineering? Knighthood and directorships or will they go the way of the Ceauşescus?
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Vox refers again to this topic, a biggie in the U.S and there are certain considerations in our country here: The reasoning is sound, particularly if you don’t wish to have your child exposed to the socialist agenda now rife in the curriculum which, sadly, is reinforced by Ofsted who enforce the provisions which were [...]
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There was a quite significant moment last evening which most viewers would not have seen as significant. Understandably, jobs and immigration were the big two issues but at 21:23, Clegg had a go at Cameron over the cap. Roughly, it went: How can David Cameron cap immigration when 80% of immigrants come from the EU? [...]
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We all know women are superior but still, one wonders about the following: Rebecca Thorman wrote, in 2007: The reality of young women’s lives today is that we want it all. Novelist Allison Pearson, speaking of her depression, described herself as: [O]ne of a generation who had waited until their 30s to have children and [...]
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22:24 Some instant reaction. A ComRes poll suggests David Cameron did best, with 35% of respondents saying so, with Nick Clegg on 33% and Gordon Brown on 26%. Probably fair. That’s how this blogger saw it and good night. 21:59 Who impressed as a pollie? Cameron was good, Clegg was good, Brown was useless. Policies? [...]
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Don’t think I’m telling porkies when I say I was present at Chopin’s death. Eating a Toruń gingerbread at the time, he recommended the piece below for this evening’s post, flopped back on the bed and joined the choir invisible: Keep your mind on the music:
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It’s sad when even the foreign press has a go at you: Nouvelle gaffe de Brown Der Premier im Kontakt mit dem Volk – was PR hätte sein sollen, wurde am Ende ein Fiasko Gaffe di Brown, «chi è sta fanatica» Povero Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown in ‘bigot’ gaffe. Britain’s bedraggled Prime Minister Gordon Brown [...]
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[Update at Joe Huffman's] Let’s be honest – it’s not essential to join a Clay Pigeon Shooting club to own a shotgun but this is a great sport and helps refine your technique like no other. All right, fair’s fair – it costs some but not a lot for a year and it’s the safe [...]
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Let’s start from the premises that there’s something fundamentally wrong with Westminster politics, that we’re being played a perpetual three-card trick [which you'll see at 8 p.m. today], that something, somehow, is inducing corruption and lies in public life, that civic life is now being slowly strangled [wheelie-bin crime, anti-smoking legislation, can't speak without being [...]
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Just got back from a political meeting in our area for the local independent who is pretty well known, being a former councillor and a local lad. What made it interesting was that we know the connection of the EU to the regions, we know how this government has sold the country out to the [...]
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“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease, but the very existence of a society.” [Samuel Johnson] “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an [...]
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This blog has enormous problems with the mentality displayed in this story from Downunder: In a massive blow to fans of Melbourne’s vibrant CBD street-art scene, City of Melbourne workers have destroyed a little-known piece of stencil art left by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy. Local businesspeople were alerted to the mistake this morning, after the [...]
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UKIP have given an ultimatum to the BBC that they demand an equal place in Thursday’s Final Debate and expect an answer by 2 p.m. tomorrow. Here is the full text at Daniel’s. For commentary on the whole matter, try Witterings from Witney, which I reprint below: One could say that UKIP are jumping on [...]
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Isn’t it strange how we’ll risk life and limb stopping traffic to let Mrs. Duck and her offspring cross the road? Just how much do you know about ducks? 1. Is it the male, female or both of the dabbling duck which quacks? 2. Which is true – all mallards are ducks or all ducks [...]
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Things appear to be happening a lot in the U.S. There was the fungus, then the strange Amtrak facility in the last post and now this one on Morgellons, courtesy of Harry Hook. You’re humble blogger comes to this topic not knowing a damn thing about it so let me retrace the steps in understanding:
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Disarming the citizens leaves weapons in the hands of those who don’t respect the law, which brings about a certain violence on the streets. With no one to protect them, private citizens are now subject to assaults, rapes and the like, the courts deal severely with citizens who try to defend themselves and the only [...]
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Sackerson advised me to get off the morbid topics and I would have done, except Ross Fountain‘s posted one and it needs comment. I saw my old house, that I grew up in until I was 12, being advertised in the window of an estate agent home. When I got home I decided to look [...]
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There hasn’t been much in the blogosphere about the Ladies in White and maybe there should be: During the Black Spring in 2003, the Cuban government arrested and summarily tried and sentenced 75 human rights defenders, independent journalists, and independent librarians to terms of up to 28 years in prison. For its part, the Cuban [...]
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We sent David Phipps to represent the Albion Alliance at an interview on Bristol radio and some quite predictable things happened. For a start, no one had told us that there was to be someone else there, someone, in fact, who would dominate 6 minutes of the 10 minute grab, before David could get a [...]
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When you think of angels, what image springs to mind? Benign, malevolent, male, female, wings, humanoid? Do you see them as real? As in the Guido Reni painting, they were primarily male in mythology – Michael, Gabriel, that sort of person. My image is usually female or genderless with soft characteristics and the one employed [...]
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You all know the KISS principle and that is how the Jessica Watson team have done it although there’s still the toughest section coming, illustrating another adage: “There’s many a slip …” Poor Abby Sunderland though, sailing from San Francisco:
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“I am convinced that, with very few exceptions, there is something intrinsically and fundamentally wrong with the psyche of anyone who genuinely wants to be a national politician.” [Vox Day]
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Very short walk from the ancestral home
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There’s a really nice explanation by Terry Jones, in which he says, “Life of Brian isn’t blasphemous because it doesn’t touch on belief at all; it’s heretical because it touches on dogma and it touches on the priesthood and the interpretation of belief, rather than belief itself.”
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There’s a real Donnybrook going on Downunder. In a nutshell, Melbourne is the citadel of Australian Rules football, its heartland and Sydney is the heartland of Rugby. Years ago, South Melbourne moved to the harbour city to take on Rugby and it’s only fitting that Rugby created a club called Melbourne Storm a few years [...]
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