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Offline

May 18, 2010 Longrider 1

Things have been quiet here for the past week. My satellite modem has gone tits up. It may be another week before I am back […]

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Blog Ratings

April 26, 2010 Longrider 5

Via Leg Iron, in response to this story, the above is a rating widget for this blog. Why is it rated “parental guidance”? This rating was […]

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Thoughts on Language

April 25, 2010 Longrider 11

Further to the discussions here and here, I thought I’d enlarge on why I am relatively intolerant of such blatant illiteracy. The English language is […]

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Censoring the Troops.

March 8, 2010 Longrider 2

Via Constantly Furious, this: British journalists and TV crews are to be banned from the Afghan front line once a date for the election has […]

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What Others Are Saying

March 2, 2010 Longrider 4

Sometimes, trawling about  the political blogs, one comes across some interesting discussions – or, more precisely, a viewpoint on the current issues du jour worthy […]

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The Mouths of Babes

February 22, 2010 Longrider 8

Via The Appalling Strangeness, my attention is drawn to this over at Illiberal Conspiracy. I’m not going to fisk it – although it is eminently […]