The State and Technology
The revenue has been experiencing a little difficulty. This comment from George Bull, head of tax accountancy at Baker Tilly says it all: With British […]
Month: January 2008
Rowan Williams – Apologist for Evil
I don’t have much to add to DK’s and Harry Haddock’s evisceration of Rowan Williams’ appalling comments on free speech. Williams’ stupid suggestion that religions be protected […]
Madeleine Bunting Doesn’t Get It
Madeleine Bunting bemoans the state of civilisation today: Trivial personal anecdotes, you might say, with some justification. But what I saw at Edmonton bus station […]
Fare Strike
First Great Western has been subject to a second fare strike by commuters. Rail commuters today staged a fares “strike” in a protest against overcrowded, […]
Enviroloony of the Day
You can always rely on the Groan’s Comment is Free for sheer, unadulterated idiocy. Today, we mustn’t be mean to the beardy-weirdy enviroloonies, ’cos it […]
Fingerprints Dropped
One of the planks of the New Labour “gold standard” identity management scheme was the much touted biometrics. It was going to be all-singing, all-dancing fingerprints […]
And So It Starts
You may recall – or not – some while ago I mentioned the targeting of our gardens by government and developers… It was getting on for […]
The Things People Say
In the somewhat drawn out discussion that started an aeon ago with Jeremy Clarkson’s bank account, Urko quotes C S Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a […]
Electoral Change?
Some of us recall Labour’s promise of electoral reform when they came to power back in 1997. A promise so far unfulfilled. I have long […]
Elf’n’safety…
A Goth couple have been banned from travelling on a couple of buses recently: A goth who leads his girlfriend around with a dog lead […]