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Romani Ite Domum

August 17, 2011 Longrider 15

Apparently, according to the Guardian’s cyclist blog, cyclists own the roads. Car drivers assume the roads were built for them, but it was cyclists who […]

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Conscription

August 15, 2011 Longrider 40

NickM writing at Counting Cats, draws my attention to a fairly obvious predictable knee-jerk response to the recent rioting. Yup, that’s right, National Service. And don’t […]

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Osborne Gets It

August 14, 2011 Longrider 5

The Laffer curve, that is. Chancellor George Osborne has asked the Inland Revenue to check whether the 50p top rate of income tax is actually […]

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No One Has Endurance

August 12, 2011 Longrider 8

Like the woman who sells insurance. The first time someone tried to sell me personal accident insurance must be getting on for thirty years ago. […]

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Thank Goodness for That

August 5, 2011 Longrider 18

Following the risible, tabloidesque campaign by Guido Fawkes to bring back the death penalty, it seems that the government’s e-petitions site proved popular on this particular […]

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Really?

August 3, 2011 Longrider 8

Apparently, MPs are sexy. A 76-year-old Labour MP has said he and his parliamentary colleagues have an inescapable “sexual magnetism”. Paul Flynn told the BBC […]

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Bullying at Work

August 3, 2011 Longrider 28

I must be a bit slow. Or perhaps I’ve just been too close to the action. There’s no excuse really as I’ve seen it before […]