Blimey. Things have got bad here, when even the Guardian thinks the British government have gone mad: Every day, there is some new example of madness or spite perpetrated by a government that seems now in its final gibbering months to be waging war on normality itself. Remember the astounding […]
The plummet to earth of self-styled communist Van Jones, a shooting Tsar in the Obama Administration firmament, prompts one to wonder about this obsession here too with appointing ‘Tsars’ to lead high-profile policy areas. Thus we are the victims of: Cancer and eight(!) other health Tsars Flu Tsar Drugs War […]
There I was yesterday evening, busy tidying the main room to welcome our guests after dinner. I laid a wood fire organically collected from my garden, and placed my LP of the Roomates in a handy position near my Linn deck, ready to charm said guests with my exquisite and […]
Perusing (as one does and must) the latest DFID White Paper, I was struck by Chapter Seven’s account of how DFID busily plans to hand out taxpayers’ money to ‘civil society organisations’ and other favoured DFID friends not in far-flung poor countries but here in the UK: This requires […]
Remember the stirring if eccentric song by Nick Lowe, Nutted by Reality ..? Well I heard they castrated CastroI heard they cut off everything he hadWhat a dirty low down thing to doTo mess him up like that They dumped him in the jungleIn the land of the sugar caneEver […]
I link to this in case you have not seen it yet: It shows what has happened to the US dollar since the Federal Reserve appeared on the scene in 1913 and started busily taking care of the currency’s ‘stability: Inflation, which is the loss of value in your saved […]
Is here chez Trixy. It links to an argument of baffling confusion about the BBC by our fellow Britblog Rounder-upper Cabalamat: Redwood is concerned that the BBC, by virtue of being popular, is unfair competition to private sector news websites. To a certain extent, that’s a valid concern. But the economy […]
Damn. When I wrote my few words about Edward Kennedy I had at the back of my mind John Profumo. But I did not make the link. So Mark Steyn has done so, brilliantly (emphasis added): An "accident," "ugly" in some unspecified way, just happened to happen – and only […]
What if a huge business kept getting huger by ignoring every business rule about good organisation? This web-based business: gets 20 billion pageviews a month has 30 employees scorns advertising, marketing, sales, refuses investment, ignores design, and does not innovate shuts down third-party applications designed to make the product work better […]
Some people are trying to use Edward Kennedy’s death to reboot Obamacare into Kennedycare. What about a single sensible national health insurance scheme for the USA? What a hero would be the person who put forwarda credible plan. And what a jerk, if not a Nazi and a rabble-rouser would […]
