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Archive for May, 2007
Off to the states
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 Posted in wedding | 1 Comment »
Off to the US today to get married. So there'll be a lack of blogging for a few weeks. I'm sure I'll come back to thousands of unread blog posts too. Read more..Norman Tebbit should play Iggy
Monday, May 21st, 2007 Posted in conservatives, iggy pop, lord tebbit, polls | 1 Comment »
At least according to readers of The Register. In an online poll to see who should play Iggy Pop, Lord Tebbit won a landslide victory with 78% of the vote. There are ... Read more..Neo-cons as inheritors of the progresive tradition?
Monday, May 21st, 2007 Posted in force, freedom, liberalism, liberty, neo-conservatives, progressive | 2 Comments »
This will be controversial amongst the left-wing progressives, but I can't help thinking that the progressive movement planted the seeds for the neo-conservative international interventionist agenda. The core of the progressive ... Read more..Westminster Liberal Drinks
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 Posted in liberal drinks, wedding | 1 Comment »
Just in case you hadn't noticed, tomorrow is the monthly Westminster Drinks. Usual place, usual time. Only unusual thing is that its my last (liberal) drinks as a bachelor... Read more..Yet more worrying developments in Venezuela
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 Posted in antisemitism, venezuela | No Comments »
Darling of the left, Hugo Chavez is now cosying up to holocaust denying anti-jewish President Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran. There is an amount of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' ... Read more..Illustrating Minimum Wage Folly:
Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in economics, poverty | 7 Comments »
Read more..The Minimum Wage
Saturday, May 12th, 2007 Posted in economics | 13 Comments »
Why is it that polticians support the minimum wage. Almost all economists are united against it (and those who don't tend to have political or personal reasons to support it). ... Read more..Cleaner Engines
Friday, May 11th, 2007 Posted in environment, pollution, technology | 3 Comments »
More efficient internal combustion engines. The above link tells of advances in the good old internal combustion engine. The change is to allow fine tuning of the air and exhaust valves ... Read more..Blair - I meant well
Friday, May 11th, 2007 Posted in blair, justification | No Comments »
Tony Blair seems to want us to forgive any damage he did because he meant well and believed what he was doing was right. We should reject this line of reasoning. ... Read more..The Nationalisation of the Population
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Posted in ID cards, identity | No Comments »
A thought just struck me. If ID cards are really about protecting our identities as is claimed by the government this method puts our identities in the hands of the ... Read more..