Manchester United are left wailing at the moon after they lost today to Chelsea, after a Chelsea goal was scored from an offside position. Forgive me my moment of hollow laughter. Don’t whinge, Mancunians. Sometimes scandalous referee decisions work against you. Sometimes they work for you. Like this startling goal not […]
Is belatedly hosted by Cabalamat of the Pirate Party UK. NHS Blog Doctor bites the dust. Socialist, feminist, deviant, reprobate, queer and so on Penny Red dislikes the government’s Digital Economy Bill: Across the West, governments are moving to restrict the access of their citizens to unpaid content on the […]
Families are strange things. Just say you have a wayward sister who has never quite settled down, and fritters away successive generous attempts to help. She starts to drink herself into alcoholism, but asks you to give her several thousand pounds to help her get through a detox clinic to […]
Imagine you run a toyshop. You have to sell a consignment of ‘white’ Barbie dolls and ‘black’ Barbie dolls. Should you price them at the same rate under all circumstances to show that all races are equal? Does selling the black one at a cheaper price send a bad racial signal? […]
Is hosted by Mr Eugenides. Linking to a lot of UK political stuff, plus this good piece about how the proliferation of new media outlets create closed sub-cultures: The internet is an extension of the telephone network, and as such it’s a two-way communication medium rather than a one-way broadcast medium. […]
A fine article at Devil’s Kitchen reminding us how New Zealand slashed socialism in a series of bold, strong moves (emphasis added): It cost us twice as much to get a poorer result than we did 20 years previously with much less money. So we decided to rethink what we […]
Is it money you have now plus money you know you’ll have, or are sure you’ll have? Is it costs you have now plus costs you know you’ll have or are sure you’ll have? What about expected costs which don’t in fact arise or are deferred? How to account for […]
The UK Labour Party are said to be doing rather better in the opinion polls. Crikey. I am baffled that anyone at all would still vote for them. What does it take these days in terms of incompetence to be 100% discredited and thrown down the steps of public opinion? […]
I am heading to Malta, looking for work. My first visit to the island, which has even more history per square metre than Poland. Be there. Or be square.
