Mass Medication is Waste of Time?
So it seems a hint of reality is striking those who advocate mass medication of old fogeys. Giving ‘polypills’ containing statins, aspirin and blood-pressure-lowering drugs […]
Month: August 2011
Megrahi and Post Gaddafi Libya
Now that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has been found alive if not well, we are hearing the siren voices of revenge demanding his extradition. Interestingly the […]
Rent Seeker Seeks Rents
Andy Williamson is an erstwhile boss of a thinktank, so naturally, he thinks they are jolly spiffing things. And, of course, need our money to […]
Another Assault on Liberty
I see that salt is once more on the menu. Dick Puddlecote points us to this. High dietary salt has detrimental effects on blood pressure […]
Banksy “Art” Should be Listed
I’ve made my views on Banksy’s daubs often enough here that no one should be in any doubt that I do not regard graffiti as […]
Anonymous: Criminal Scumbags
Now don’t get me wrong, I think that Louise Mensch’s comments regarding Twitter et al earlier this month were, at best ill conceived and at […]
The Pitfalls of the Job Market
One of the downsides of using the various job sites on the web when hunting for work is that you get all sorts of crank […]
In the Garden
Out and about in the garden, Berenike demonstrates that cats are not always elegant creatures. Meanwhile, Guido is still with us and we still have […]
Meet the New Boss
Those of us who had some small glimmer of hope that the incoming coalition might just be more well disposed to personal liberty than their […]
Never in the Field of Human Nonsense
Has so much been uttered that is so vapid as that uttered by Ken Livingstone. In comments, reported in the latest issue of the magazine, […]